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heterodox

[het-er-uh-doks] / ˈhɛt ər əˌdɒks /
ADJECTIVE
heretical
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Mr. Warsh’s desire to reduce the Fed’s asset holdings is viewed as heterodox.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 18, 2026

He encountered its flagship quarterly, City Journal, in high school, and it was “rigorous, urbane, and unafraid of heterodox conclusions,” unlike anything else he was reading.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 1, 2026

Even some heterodox economists themselves have not wanted to be associated with it, and I don't actually love the term.

From Salon ● Feb. 1, 2025

A play like Harrower’s “Blackbird,” too morally disquieting to be produced by the city’s risk-averse big-budget theaters, appealed to Flynn’s heterodox side.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 27, 2024

Nietzsche's startlingly heterodox code of ethics coheres organically with the Overman hypothesis, and so understood is certain to lose some of its aspect of absurdity.

From Prophets of Dissent : Essays on Maeterlinck, Strindberg, Nietzsche and Tolstoy by Otto Heller


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