dogma
Example Sentences
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But good intentions can harden into dogma, and instead of helping people work through conflicted feelings, practitioners doubled down on the proposition that any desire for change was evidence of internalized harm.
In a bid to boost competitiveness, he has said he wants to scrap company dogma and the practice of “not taking decisions because we don’t take decisions.”
We need the intellectual seriousness to treat this as an empirical question, not something we can settle with dogma.
It reflects years of work by clinicians, community groups, families and bipartisan lawmakers who chose data over dogma.
From Salon
"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
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