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
Kanye has long worked with songwriters — something that, because it’s perceived as heterodoxy, is rarely discussed openly.
From New York Times ● Jun. 25, 2018
Likewise, the contest isn’t a race between a liberal or a moderate, or between heterodoxy and orthodoxy.
From Slate ● Jun. 12, 2017
But he had little veneration for mere authority, and the significant veering of his religious views toward heterodoxy was for years an obstacle to his advance.
From Astronomy: The Science of the Heavenly Bodies by David Peck Todd
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
The champions of a hundred orthodoxies and heterodoxies chattered fiercely behind their bulwarks of texts.
From London Days A Book of Reminiscences by Arthur Warren
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