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heresy

[her-uh-see] / ˈhɛr ə si /


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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

That, of course, was heresy, since Namath played for the AFL’s New York Jets and the big boys from the NFL champion Baltimore Colts, led by Johnny Unitas, were 19-point favorites.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 31, 2025

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

From BBC • Dec. 25, 2024

Darwin knew that he was now gliding along the dangerous edge of the known world, tacking south of heresy.

From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee




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