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
Pentagon dogma for decades centered on surgical strikes using a limited number of expensive and ultraprecise munitions packed with computer chips and digital sensors.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 28, 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
"Never was there a dogma more calculated to foster indolence, and to blunt the keen edge of curiosity," sniffed Lyell.
From "A Short History of Nearly Everything" by Bill Bryson
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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
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
CrossFit might, per the founder, have a bit of a religion-slash-biker-gang aura around it—but what it transmitted to me about food and body fat wasn’t all that different from the standard cultural dogmas.
From Slate ● Feb. 11, 2023
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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The dogmata of temporal power, and spiritual power, incessantly assailed by these floods of light, could not be long without being shaken, first in the human mind and afterwards in things, to the very foundations.
From History of the Girondists, Volume I Personal Memoirs of the Patriots of the French Revolution by H. T. Ryde
Further, Schwenkfeld supplied him with the germs of a transcendental exegesis, whereby the Christian Scriptures and the dogmata of Lutheran orthodoxy were opened up in harmony with his new-found views.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Slice 1 "Bisharin" to "Bohea" by Various
It is a dogmatic system, in which the individual dogmata are controlled by a principle or dominant idea.
From Monophysitism Past and Present A Study in Christology by A. A. (Arthur Aston) Luce
What fear is there that thy dogmata, or philosophical resolutions III.
From Meditations by Emperor of Rome Marcus Aurelius
This creed formulates its relation to Scripture over and over, as the one regula by which all dogmata are to be tried.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 6 "Dodwell" to "Drama" by Various
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