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dogma

[dawg-muh, dog-] / ˈdɔg mə, ˈdɒg- /


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That line of thinking quickly became dogma across the industry, leaving the humble bunt for dead.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 7, 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

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

Like Greek philosophy, the teachings of the tlamatinime were only tenuously connected to the official dogma of Tlacaelel.

From "1491" by Charles C. Mann

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

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 theosophists in their turn produced the symbols of supernatural perfection, and enrolled all susceptible minds and ardent imaginations around dogmata full of love and infinity.

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

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

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

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

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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