dogma
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He has called for reform of the policy, a principle he fully supports but believes is being wrongly applied and has become a dogma that can be used to conceal wrongdoing.
From BBC • Jan. 25, 2026
Additionally, scaling laws, once considered the industry’s central dogma, have come under increasing scrutiny as returns diminish.
From MarketWatch • Jan. 24, 2026
We need the intellectual seriousness to treat this as an empirical question, not something we can settle with dogma.
From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 25, 2025
In a role that demands depth and dogma, Sweeney displays little of either, making “Christy” feel like a vessel for someone else’s ideas.
From Salon • Nov. 8, 2025
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
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World Religions
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Steve Jobs's Commencement Address (2005)
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