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

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

This original sin against my family told whenever anyone addressed me in Spanish and I responded, confounded.

From "Hunger of Memory" by Richard Rodriguez