idol
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Harry Truman warned against making the Declaration an idol at the expense of its deeper meaning.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 22, 2026
"Let me say this plainly: this is not a golden calf," he said later that night on X, referring to the Old Testament idol that famously made Moses irate after he received the Commandments.
From Barron's • May 8, 2026
She asked the audience to teach her an English accent, then danced with joyous abandon, and toyed with concepts of devotion, fame and idol worship.
From BBC • May 6, 2026
And in a culture so hellbent on idol worship and exhausting discourse, where every blemish is smoothed out or screamed at, “SNL” still offers us something scrappy and unvarnished.
From Salon • Apr. 19, 2026
“Now the Babylonians had an idol they called Bel,” he declared, his voice the only clear thing in the haze that hung over us.
From "The Poisonwood Bible" by Barbara Kingsolver
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