heretic
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This was a genius-level insight that caused Thiel to be hounded out of San Francisco as a heretic.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 16, 2025
And he doesn't necessarily hope to, he said, which "makes me a bit of a heretic."
From Salon ● Aug. 14, 2024
I’m going to be a heretic, though, and say that you don’t need to read the whole thing.
From New York Times ● Nov. 9, 2022
She told legislators last week that questioning Europe doesn’t make anyone “an enemy or a heretic, but a pragmatist, who does not fear saying when something doesn’t work properly.”
From Seattle Times ● Nov. 3, 2022
Olly: haikus are awful, they're just less fun limericks Madeline: You've been downgraded from heathen to heretic.
From "Everything, Everything" by Nicola Yoon
While a handful of moderate dissidents are tacitly tolerated as a matter of expedience, most other heretics have been driven from the tent.
From Slate ● Sep. 10, 2026
The most riveting parts of “Mobilize” are those that bring Mr. Sankar’s heretics to life.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 16, 2026
But while Dante walked through a rain of fire, dodging heretics, we ambled through dappled wood of chestnut and tractor-marked dirt tracks, hugging fields and mountain ridges.
From Washington Post ● Nov. 4, 2021
They were considered heretics by IS, a Sunni jihadist group.
From BBC ● Feb. 6, 2021
All night, I slept with Gwenforte curled beside me, and my sleep was deeper than any I had had since my disaster with the heretics in Italy.
From "The Inquisitor's Tale" by Adam Gidwitz
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