dogma
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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
Ultimately, “Feed the People!” is a worthwhile corrective to a great deal of wrongheaded popular dogma about food.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 17, 2026
Teaching such an ancient Sapiens English, persuading him of the truth of Christian dogma, or getting him to understand the theory of evolution would probably have been hopeless undertakings.
From "Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind" by Yuval Noah Harari
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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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I divide all apodeictic propositions, whether demonstrable or immediately certain, into dogmata and mathemata.
From The Critique of Pure Reason by John Miller Dow Meiklejohn
Early writers of the modern period, Protestant or Roman Catholic, use it frequently of heretics; thus the Augsburg Confession protests Dogmata in revived use. that the Protestants have carefully avoided nova dogmata.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 6 "Dodwell" to "Drama" by Various
Dogma makes dogmas or dogmata; exanthema, exanthemas or exanthemata; miasm or miasma, miasms or miasmata; stigma, stigmas or stigmata.
From The Grammar of English Grammars by Goold Brown
All these dogmata were mingled in an equal contempt for existing institutions in one same aspiration for the renewal of the mind and things.
From History of the Girondists, Volume I Personal Memoirs of the Patriots of the French Revolution by H. T. Ryde
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
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