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During the discussion that followed, Mr. Klepach went further, committing heresy in the eyes of Mr. Putin, who insists that Russia’s war against Ukraine is going splendidly.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 20, 2026

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

From Slate ● Jul. 20, 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

"This is eminently reasonable but was treated for many years as heresy," he added.

From BBC ● Jul. 15, 2025

It was received everywhere, but particularly in the paleontological community, as an outrageous heresy.

From "A Short History of Nearly Everything" by Bill Bryson

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

In the wake of iconoclasm, the leaders of the Orthodox church, the patriarchs of Constantinople, would claim that innovations in theology or Christian practice were heresies.

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