orthodox
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Abhishek, for instance, has a strike-rate of 245.2 runs per 100 balls against leg-spin in international T20s and 213.7 against left-arm orthodox spinners.
From BBC • Mar. 2, 2026
The rising cohorts of women’s-rights campaigners bore less of an imprint of the orthodox Protestantism than those of Stanton’s generation and had no interest in editing the Bible.
From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 27, 2026
“A sputtering 60/40 rebalancing engine may allow for a more orthodox context for bond / equity correlations, and higher diversification and hedging benefits of long duration positions in portfolios,” they say.
From MarketWatch • Feb. 9, 2026
Ver had initially gone the orthodox route of hiring tax attorneys from a prestigious law firm, Steptoe.
From Salon • Jan. 23, 2026
This was contrary to orthodox Aristotelian philosophy, which said that there could be no such thing as a vacuum.
From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton
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