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Recent Examples of apostasy
This triggers a slippery slope toward apostasy — that is, de-prioritizing mindedness toward church vetted preoccupations.
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Cory Anderson,
STAT,
6 Mar. 2026
Its roots are in publicly paying penance for serious sins or crimes in the eyes of the church, like adultery or apostasy, which means renouncing the church and its beliefs.
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Lianna Norman,
Florida Times-Union,
16 Feb. 2026
Those who showed apostasy rarely got another assignment.
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Vince Passaro,
Harpers Magazine,
30 Dec. 2025
According to a Pew Research Center Poll in 2013, 88 percent of Egyptian Muslims and 62 percent of Pakistani Muslims support the death penalty for apostasy.
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Andrew L. Peek,
Foreign Affairs,
14 June 2016
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Cory Anderson,
STAT,
6 Mar. 2026
Its roots are in publicly paying penance for serious sins or crimes in the eyes of the church, like adultery or apostasy, which means renouncing the church and its beliefs.
—
Lianna Norman,
Florida Times-Union,
16 Feb. 2026
Those who showed apostasy rarely got another assignment.
—
Vince Passaro,
Harpers Magazine,
30 Dec. 2025
According to a Pew Research Center Poll in 2013, 88 percent of Egyptian Muslims and 62 percent of Pakistani Muslims support the death penalty for apostasy.
—
Andrew L. Peek,
Foreign Affairs,
14 June 2016
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for apostasy
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Some of 2026’s primaries are showing a new schism — and the results should be ringing alarm bells across the network.
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The schism mirrors a similar one running through Silicon Valley.
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South Korea took a soldier from the North into custody after the individual crossed the heavily fortified border this week in what is believed to be a defection, South Korea's Yonhap news agency reported Wednesday.
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In replacing Bowman as GM during the 1986-87 season, Meehan oversaw numerous franchise-changing moves, including Mogilny’s defection from the Soviet Union in 1989.
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Opinion polls indicate that separatism in Alberta lacks broad appeal, however.
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These tactical innovations have been reinforced by deliberate efforts at broadening the support base for Baloch separatism.
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The second major structural change involves one of the hallmarks of SARS-CoV-2 as compared to SARS-CoV-1: initial scission at the S1 furin cleavage site.
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Wilson cautions more work is needed to explain how exactly spin results after scission.
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Following the news breaking, rumors of infidelity on both sides began circulating on social media.
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The Apartment is a daring dissection of toxicity in the story of an insurance clerk (Jack Lemmon) who lets his co-workers use his apartment to support their infidelity.
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Joan of Arc was acquitted and declared innocent of alleged heresy by a retrial verdict 25 years after her execution by burning.
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While Ono faced the public just days after being named UF’s preferred candidate, Bell has spent more than two weeks under the microscope as conservative activists, bloggers and political operatives sifted through his decade-long record in Alabama searching for evidence of ideological heresy.
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When the complex was being constructed, there were deviations from the building’s original design, contributing to structural weaknesses, the report said.
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In 2023 a collaboration of radio astronomers reported tiny deviations in the timing of these flashes from dozens of pulsars in the Milky Way.
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Attorney Al Watkins, who represented the McCloskeys during the early stages of the controversy, said one of the biggest misconceptions about the case is what triggered the confrontation in the first place.
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One of the misconceptions about work from home or hybrid is that the entire workforce can avail itself with such arrangements.
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“Apostasy.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/apostasy. Accessed 29 Jun. 2026.
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