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heresy

[her-uh-see] / ˈhɛr ə si /


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

From Slate Jul. 20, 2026

When Ferrari revealed the Purosangue three years ago, many in the red brigade derided the design and, more generally, the very idea of a Ferrari sport-utility vehicle, scorning it as a sort of heresy.

From The Wall Street Journal Apr. 18, 2026

His brother confirmed in an interview with the city’s local station WGN-TV that he is a White Sox fan, refuting early heresy claiming he roots for the Cubs, aka Satan’s Stickballers.

From Salon May 10, 2025

The heresy of yesterday is now – thanks to science and economic crisis – the opportunity of today.

From BBC Dec. 25, 2024

A heresy since the 13th century, this law states that a balance exists in nature: “For every apostrophe omitted from an it’s, there is an extra one put into an its.”

From "Eats, Shoots & Leaves" by Author

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

All of the past heresies had remained limited in scope as compared with the incredible rapidity with which Lutheranism spread.

From Textbooks Jan. 1, 2020

“The heresies of one period,” she said, always become “the orthodoxies of the next”.

From The Guardian Jan. 19, 2018

All subsequent crimes against the Party, all treacheries, acts of sabotage, heresies, deviations, sprang directly out of his teaching.

From "1984" by George Orwell




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