dogma
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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
Mr. Schaller upended the dogma by observing animals in their own habitats, arriving at the critical awareness that to maintain a healthy planet we must manage whole ecosystems, not individual species.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 8, 2026
It’s not enough to come barrelling into a conversation with a long-winded explanation of your personal dogma; you must also confidently push the value of those ideas, too.
From Salon ● Apr. 29, 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
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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
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
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
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In the first place quite a number of ignorant persons have thought that the discovery of spontaneous generation would upset religious dogmata.
From Science and Morals and Other Essays by Sir Bertram Coghill Alan Windle
So much for the dogmata of my friend Lismahago, whom I describe the more circumstantially, as I firmly believe he will set up his rest in Monmouthshire.
From The Expedition of Humphry Clinker by T. (Tobias) Smollett
By little and little, if thou doest not better look to it, those sacred dogmata will be blotted out of thy mind.
From Meditations by Emperor of Rome Marcus Aurelius
For she herself alone can affect and move herself, and according as the dogmata and opinions are, which she doth vouchsafe herself; so are those things which, as accessories, have any co-existence with her.
From Meditations by Emperor of Rome Marcus Aurelius
And without a change of dogmata, what is there but the slavery of men groaning and pretending to obey?
From The Conflict of Religions in the Early Roman Empire by T. R. (Terrot Reaveley) Glover
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World Religions
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Steve Jobs's Commencement Address (2005)
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