sin
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Before we started calling one another “performative,” Tucker, Brownstein and Phair came from a time when “poser” was the worst insult and sin.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 3, 2026
In academia, there is no greater sin than passing off another’s work as one’s own.
From Salon ● Aug. 23, 2026
Vanity for them was no sin but a way of life.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 3, 2026
She had converted to Catholicism in the 1990s, telling The Times: "To have a church which calls a sin a sin and has done with it is a blessed relief."
From BBC ● Jul. 10, 2026
Her stories, however, of the goodness of good behavior collapsed before the thrill of the sin they deplored.
From "Jazz" by Toni Morrison
Thomas has spoken publicly about his new-found faith: "I have repented my sins and, under Jesus Christ, I am a new man."
From BBC ● Sep. 11, 2026
But while your brother’s lack of money management appears to have led your mother to make this gesture, it’s also important not to punish his children for the sins of their father.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 10, 2026
For white people who felt no enmity toward their fellow man, but who believed they were paying for the sins of their fathers, he was hope.
From Salon ● Sep. 4, 2026
Catholics are supposed to confess our sins privately.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 19, 2026
“The sins of past lives, maybe. I don’t know.”
From "Hollow City" by Ransom Riggs
He continued, "I guess as the famous saying goes, 'democracy dies in discussion . . .' But look, I have sinned against you. I'm sorry," he said unseriously in a Southern accent.
From Salon ● Feb. 20, 2024
“I have sinned, I have broken the law, and I have no excuses,” Sister Mary Margaret Kreuper, the former principal of St. James Catholic School, told the judge.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 7, 2022
“I have sinned, I’ve broken the law and I have no excuses,” Kreuper said via teleconference.
From Seattle Times ● Feb. 7, 2022
In 2018, the board, which has a tarnished recent history, reciprocated his antagonism, censuring him for having sinned against collegiality by things he had said and done.
From Washington Post ● Oct. 27, 2021
Some god had pity on her, traitor though she was, because she had sinned through love.
From "Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes" by Edith Hamilton
His Adam is aptly named; he’s a biblical kind of hero, sinning and suffering.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 2, 2023
Crusaders came to expect standard privileges like the indulgence, a means to reduce the penance owed for sinning by giving money directly to the church or paying for masses or other clerical services.
From Textbooks ● Apr. 19, 2023
Hannah was packed with ambitions and flaws; she was smart and off-putting, righteous and self-centered, struggling and privileged, sinned against and sinning.
From New York Times ● Jul. 26, 2021
He insists he is a man more sinned against than sinning and is working with lawyers to clear his name.
From BBC ● Jul. 13, 2021
I never sinning I always winning Now I got Jesus.
From "A Confederacy of Dunces" by John Kennedy Toole
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