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heresy

[her-uh-see] / ˈhɛr ə si /


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"They say that 'C'etait ca ou mourir' was written by an artificial intelligence. That's slander and heresy," Orelien said in a statement Tuesday.

From Barron's ● Oct. 14, 2026

Within a legal profession that venerates judges and worships the Supreme Court, this is borderline heresy.

From Slate ● Jul. 20, 2026

Team USA’s second World Cup match was already his fourth game of the tournament and, by then, he was the rare fan who had fallen in love with these moments of soccer heresy.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 24, 2026

Most of the unhappy denizens of Dante’s imagined hell are being eternally tormented for specific moral crimes in categories covering lust, gluttony, greed, anger, heresy, violence, fraud and treachery.

From Salon ● Mar. 8, 2026

It draws its comedy from the fact that what, to Flanders and Swann’s twentieth- century Western audience, is a commonplace, is heresy to the cannibals of the song.

From "Words Like Loaded Pistols" by Sam Leith

Mr. Pynchon, a descendant of the colonial family fictionalized in “The House of the Seven Gables,” infuses his chronicle with a modern sense of paranoia and a taste for countercultural heresies.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 19, 2026

In the state’s lone House district, Republican Dusty Johnson is facing a primary for the usual heresies.

From Slate ● Jun. 7, 2022

He was equally interested in imposing Christian uniformity through the elimination of Christian heresies like Arianism.

From Textbooks ● Jan. 1, 2020

The papal bull of 1520 excommunicating Luther from the Catholic Church, for example, accused him of promoting 41 heresies and “pestiferous errors.”

From National Geographic ● Oct. 27, 2017

But these heresies died when he read her last letter.

From "Atonement" by Ian McEwan


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