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heterodoxy

[het-er-uh-dok-see] / ˈhɛt ər əˌdɒk si /




NOUN
materialism
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About the closest they’ll come to heterodoxy is keeping silent about various unpopular stances associated with the party.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 11, 2026

Seehorn’s Kim is a Type A striver with a rebellious streak; she wants to do work more meaningful than representing a regional bank and finds something alluring in Jimmy’s reckless heterodoxy.

From New York Times ● Feb. 9, 2022

“This is a worldwide, but certainly American, trend toward heterodoxy — toward individuals cooking up their own spiritual or religious stew and cooking it up their way,” Burklo said.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 10, 2019

There’s still value placed on heterodoxy here at Slate.

From Slate ● Jan. 8, 2019

In the minds of the River Gods heterodoxy was his crime.

From Ocean to Ocean on Horseback Being the Story of a Tour in the Saddle from the Atlantic to the Pacific; with Especial Reference to the Early History and Devel by Willard W. Glazier

But there are all sorts of complexities and heterodoxies that are suffocated by uncomplicated embrace.

From New York Times ● May 16, 2022

To some degree, “populism” is another word for heterodoxies that seem doomed to fail.

From Economist ● Jul. 20, 2017

I stayed because I was incredibly curious and thought at least I could work on my novel, a Western set in “the American subconscious,” a Jungian wonderland of heterodoxies.

From Salon ● May 31, 2015

Who will be courageous enough to confront the public with such brave heterodoxies as “Not all cultures are equally conducive to human flourishing”? The Intellectual Dark Web, that’s who.

From Slate

Yet we find Divine- Right Tories, who in literature are fervent admirers of these two poets, and leave their heterodoxies out of account.

From Alfred Tennyson by Andrew Lang




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