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
Pearson was shunned by other evangelical leaders, branded a heretic and later became a United Church of Christ minister.
From Seattle Times • Nov. 20, 2023
The father of Tutankhamun was Akhenaten, the so-called heretic king whose reign was characterized by social, political and religious upheaval.
From New York Times • Oct. 30, 2022
I sat there feeling myself a heretic, believing only in this one-shot life and the body.
From "Between the World and Me" by Ta-Nehisi Coates
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