orthodox
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“Such dislike, however, cannot justify using regulatory processes to restrict those views. The government does not get to decide ‘what shall be orthodox in politics, nationalism, religion, or other matters of opinion.’”
From Los Angeles Times • May 8, 2026
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
Though it had been experimenting with other philosophies for several centuries, when threatened with schism it turned orthodox once again.
From "Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea" by Charles Seife
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