heresy

Team USA’s second World Cup match was already his fourth game of the tournament and, by then, he was the rare fan who had fallen in love with these moments of soccer heresy.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 24, 2026

Most of the unhappy denizens of Dante’s imagined hell are being eternally tormented for specific moral crimes in categories covering lust, gluttony, greed, anger, heresy, violence, fraud and treachery.

From Salon ● Mar. 8, 2026

The heresy of yesterday is now – thanks to science and economic crisis – the opportunity of today.

From BBC ● Dec. 25, 2024

I realize this is heresy, but I think it’s important to acknowledge the irreducible strangeness of the drama.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 4, 2024

The work was titled Le Monde, ou Traité de la Lumière, and it was on the verge of being published when news of Galileo’s trial and conviction for heresy reached Holland.

From "The Scientists" by John Gribbin

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

As Bishop of Hippo, Augustine sought to defend theological orthodoxy against various heresies.

From Textbooks ● Jun. 15, 2022

In the state’s lone House district, Republican Dusty Johnson is facing a primary for the usual heresies.

From Slate ● Jun. 7, 2022

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

There were also whispered stories of a terrible book, a compendium of all the heresies, of which Goldstein was the author and which circulated clandestinely here and there.

From "1984" by George Orwell