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dogma

[dawg-muh, dog-] / ˈdɔg mə, ˈdɒg- /


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"This challenges the dogma that calorie reduction is necessary to lose weight, but it also tells us that we need to have clear understanding of the mechanisms," he said.

From Science Daily Jul. 10, 2026

This is a refreshing change from the dogma of the past several years.

From Barron's Jun. 26, 2026

Thus, he dared to break with long-held dogma that the economy would overheat and spark runaway inflation if allowed to grow at a sustained rate of much above 2.5% per year.

From Los Angeles Times Jun. 22, 2026

He has led talks to energize employees, reminding them never to speak of the company’s forthcoming products, a nod to the company’s secrecy dogma preached by Jobs.

From The Wall Street Journal Apr. 21, 2026

“Equality’s good. But equality and sameness are two different things. Sometimes those who say things without really contemplating what it truly means...That dogma runs a thin line.”

From "The Last Cuentista" by Donna Barba Higuera

In the Middle East, the dogmas of the past are inadequate to the stormy present.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 13, 2026

"It is up to all of us to preserve confidence in our democratic coexistence," he said, adding: "In democracy, one's own ideas can never be dogmas; nor can those of others be threats."

From Barron's Dec. 24, 2025

Every director has a complete different set of dogmas, if you may, or things that have to be a certain way.

From Los Angeles Times Feb. 15, 2024

CrossFit might, per the founder, have a bit of a religion-slash-biker-gang aura around it—but what it transmitted to me about food and body fat wasn’t all that different from the standard cultural dogmas.

From Slate Feb. 11, 2023

Students are taught—what I never had to be taught—that religion is not simply a matter of dogmas or theological truths; that religion involves a person’s whole way of life.

From "Hunger of Memory" by Richard Rodriguez

And without a change of dogmata, what is there but the slavery of men groaning and pretending to obey?

From The Conflict of Religions in the Early Roman Empire by Glover, T. R. (Terrot Reaveley)

Your friend has the remedy in his own hands; let him "purify his dogmata."

From The Conflict of Religions in the Early Roman Empire by Glover, T. R. (Terrot Reaveley)

As the senses naturally belong to the body, and the desires and affections to the soul, so do the dogmata to the understanding.

From Meditations by Marcus Aurelius, Emperor of Rome

It is a dogmatic system, in which the individual dogmata are controlled by a principle or dominant idea.

From Monophysitism Past and Present A Study in Christology by Luce, A. A. (Arthur Aston)

By little and little, if thou doest not better look to it, those sacred dogmata will be blotted out of thy mind.

From Meditations by Marcus Aurelius, Emperor of Rome




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