original sin

Example Sentences

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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

So then—can an inanimate tool such as this typewriter be penitent, reformed, and redeemed from the original sin of its creation?

From Slate • Mar. 16, 2024

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

From BBC • Jan. 26, 2024

“The original sin here was not factoring in what Loberg’s workload was,” said Gerstein of Gotham Ghostwriters.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 8, 2023

I knew, as everyone knows, the true but incomplete statement of the problem—that an original sin of the fathers was being visited on the children of succeeding generations.

From "Travels with Charley in Search of America" by John Steinbeck