orthodoxy
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One reason that Snead could be so fearless was that he had come to the realization that, contrary to NFL orthodoxy, the draft wasn’t the be-all, end-all of teambuilding.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 28, 2026
Measured in volatility, the S&P 500 over that period has been less “risky,” just as Wall Street orthodoxy would suggest.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 14, 2026
But there is no shortage of evangelists who will point to Musk's staggering ability to raise money, challenge orthodoxy and prove his doubters wrong.
From BBC ● Jun. 8, 2026
The First Amendment, he concludes, “stands as a shield against any effort to enforce orthodoxy in thought or speech.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 31, 2026
The evidence for a germ theory of disease was available for hundreds and hundreds of years before medical orthodoxy was capable of looking at it freshly enough to accept it.
From "Words Like Loaded Pistols" by Sam Leith
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One by one, the authors attempt to demolish the orthodoxies of space enthusiasts.
From Slate ● Dec. 9, 2025
There are no political, religious or secularist orthodoxies or litmus tests.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 30, 2025
What Field admired was Powell's willingness to challenge his own party's leadership and orthodoxies - even if it effectively removed him from office.
From BBC ● Apr. 24, 2024
But now, a growing awareness of the impact of those systems on the climate has led a number of major institutions to rethink their most fundamental conservation orthodoxies.
From New York Times ● Feb. 1, 2023
But in the scientific orthodoxies fashion reigns and changes as incontinently as in dress.
From The Crest-Wave of Evolution A Course of Lectures in History, Given to the Graduates' Class in the Raja-Yoga College, Point Loma, in the College-Year 1918-19 by Kenneth Morris
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"Politics and the English Language" by George Orwell
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