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dogma

[dawg-muh, dog-] / ˈdɔg mə, ˈdɒg- /


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"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

Thus, he dared to break with long-held dogma that the economy would overheat and spark runaway inflation if allowed to grow at a sustained rate of much above 2.5% per year.

From Los Angeles Times Jun. 22, 2026

He has led talks to energize employees, reminding them never to speak of the company’s forthcoming products, a nod to the company’s secrecy dogma preached by Jobs.

From The Wall Street Journal Apr. 21, 2026

The news about DNA and the genetic code did not displace an earlier dogma; there was nothing much there to be moved aside.

From "The Lives of a Cell" by Lewis Thomas

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

And speaking at the FDA was not just a matter, for these figures, of challenging conventional dogmas, but of boosting their own reputations, sometimes to the benefit of their own finances and audiences.

From Slate Jul. 25, 2025

In “Succession,” “Ozark” and to lesser extent, “Better Call Saul,” the prisons are a bit more DIY, a combination of unfortunate circumstances twisted into something worse by certain dogmas of family, power, identity and legacy.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 12, 2022

Students are taught—what I never had to be taught—that religion is not simply a matter of dogmas or theological truths; that religion involves a person’s whole way of life.

From "Hunger of Memory" by Richard Rodriguez

The one had deeply investigated the religious dogmata, the other the political institutions; and the president Dupaty had long after awakened there enthusiasm for the new system of philosophy.

From History of the Girondists, Volume I Personal Memoirs of the Patriots of the French Revolution by Ryde, H. T.

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

What fear is there that thy dogmata, or philosophical resolutions III.

From Meditations by Marcus Aurelius, Emperor of Rome

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 Luce, A. A. (Arthur Aston)

I divide all apodeictic propositions, whether demonstrable or immediately certain, into dogmata and mathemata.

From The Critique of Pure Reason by Meiklejohn, John Miller Dow




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