heresy

When Ferrari revealed the Purosangue three years ago, many in the red brigade derided the design and, more generally, the very idea of a Ferrari sport-utility vehicle, scorning it as a sort of heresy.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 18, 2026

"This is eminently reasonable but was treated for many years as heresy," he added.

From BBC ● Jul. 15, 2025

His brother confirmed in an interview with the city’s local station WGN-TV that he is a White Sox fan, refuting early heresy claiming he roots for the Cubs, aka Satan’s Stickballers.

From Salon ● May 10, 2025

That, of course, was heresy, since Namath played for the AFL’s New York Jets and the big boys from the NFL champion Baltimore Colts, led by Johnny Unitas, were 19-point favorites.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 31, 2025

A heresy since the 13th century, this law states that a balance exists in nature: “For every apostrophe omitted from an it’s, there is an extra one put into an its.”

From "Eats, Shoots & Leaves" by Author

Mr. Pynchon, a descendant of the colonial family fictionalized in “The House of the Seven Gables,” infuses his chronicle with a modern sense of paranoia and a taste for countercultural heresies.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 19, 2026

You’ll need more heresies than that to oust an incumbent in a primary.

From Slate ● May 24, 2022

All of the past heresies had remained limited in scope as compared with the incredible rapidity with which Lutheranism spread.

From Textbooks ● Jan. 1, 2020

The papal bull of 1520 excommunicating Luther from the Catholic Church, for example, accused him of promoting 41 heresies and “pestiferous errors.”

From National Geographic ● Oct. 27, 2017

And, on the same model, heresies were named after their originators: Donatism and Arianism, for example.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton