original sin
Example Sentences
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Nothing will ever undo the original sin, and devoting your life to ruining someone else’s is a loss for both of you.
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 19, 2026
This soul-gnawing anxiety is not original sin in the Christian sense, even if it functions in much the same way.
From Salon • May 25, 2025
“The approach was really the original sin of Gascón and the beginning and the end of this administration,” Ehrlich said.
From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 24, 2024
Stop's Mr Cahn says that "original sin" of predictive policing is "biased historical data".
From BBC • Jan. 26, 2024
He felt in some way that it was a kind of original sin, a terrible thing he’d done that spoke to a dark thing inside of him.
From "A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age" by Matt Richtel
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
