heterodoxy
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At 24 Debs was elected Terre Haute city clerk, where the extent of his heterodoxy was waiving criminal fines against prostitutes.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 9, 2026
“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
As a sentence about America, it has it all: heterodoxy, entrepreneurialism, cultural appropriation, sexual repression, and a town that could have been named by the Protestant work ethic made sentient.
From The New Yorker ● Apr. 24, 2019
There’s still value placed on heterodoxy here at Slate.
From Slate ● Jan. 8, 2019
Evan suddenly remembered that he was a country accountant, and it was poor policy to abet a junior in heterodoxy.
From A Canadian Bankclerk by J. P. Buschlen
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
It was a period when brilliant heterodoxies and flaunting decadence were in the air.
From The Hound of Heaven by Francis Thompson
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