heresy
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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
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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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