original sin

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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 original sin in this state is affordability,” Newsom said at news conference.

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 19, 2024

Stop's Mr Cahn says that "original sin" of predictive policing is "biased historical data".

From BBC • Jan. 26, 2024

For medieval Christians, the existence of such a chain of humans provided a most powerful and original understanding of original sin.

From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee