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dogma

[dawg-muh, dog-] / ˈdɔg mə, ˈdɒg- /


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Friedman was, as usual, channeling mainstream foreign policy dogma, which briefly held that constructive change might emerge from the chaotic aftermath of the Oct.

From Salon ● Sep. 14, 2026

"This challenges the dogma that calorie reduction is necessary to lose weight, but it also tells us that we need to have clear understanding of the mechanisms," he said.

From Science Daily ● Jul. 10, 2026

This is a refreshing change from the dogma of the past several years.

From Barron's ● Jun. 26, 2026

But just as pizzaiolos have riffed on the Neapolitan pie, some artisanal bakers have found that the key to success lies in strategically breaking from dogma.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 9, 2026

Farmer had never cared much about the religious dogma he’d been taught as a child, and he still didn’t believe in most of it now.

From "Mountains Beyond Mountains" by Tracy Kidder and Michael French

In the Middle East, the dogmas of the past are inadequate to the stormy present.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 13, 2026

"It is up to all of us to preserve confidence in our democratic coexistence," he said, adding: "In democracy, one's own ideas can never be dogmas; nor can those of others be threats."

From Barron's ● Dec. 24, 2025

Every director has a complete different set of dogmas, if you may, or things that have to be a certain way.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 15, 2024

CrossFit might, per the founder, have a bit of a religion-slash-biker-gang aura around it—but what it transmitted to me about food and body fat wasn’t all that different from the standard cultural dogmas.

From Slate ● Feb. 11, 2023

At parties they start to ask leading questions that have the ring of inquisition; they are interested in my positions, my dogmas.

From "Cat's Eye" by Margaret Atwood

Hence it is that the Chronicon Angliae speaks of John Ball as having been imprisoned earlier in life for his Wycliffite errors, which it calls simply perversa dogmata.

From Mediaeval Socialism by Bede Jarrett

Your friend has the remedy in his own hands; let him "purify his dogmata."

From The Conflict of Religions in the Early Roman Empire by T. R. (Terrot Reaveley) Glover

The foregoing considerations may be summed up in the form of three dogmata, all of which orthodox Christianity teaches.

From Monophysitism Past and Present A Study in Christology by A. A. (Arthur Aston) Luce

We are not discussing the above-mentioned assertions regarding the immaterial unity of the soul and the existence of a Supreme Being as dogmata, which certain philosophers profess to demonstrate a priori, but purely as hypotheses.

From The Critique of Pure Reason by John Miller Dow Meiklejohn

Further, Schwenkfeld supplied him with the germs of a transcendental exegesis, whereby the Christian Scriptures and the dogmata of Lutheran orthodoxy were opened up in harmony with his new-found views.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Slice 1 "Bisharin" to "Bohea" by Various




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