heresy

Example Sentences

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For most of its 50-year history, this would have been heresy at Apple.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 3, 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

It draws its comedy from the fact that what, to Flanders and Swann’s twentieth- century Western audience, is a commonplace, is heresy to the cannibals of the song.

From "Words Like Loaded Pistols" by Sam Leith