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Recent Examples of philosophy
For all his grand talk of philosophy, his real interest was political strategy.
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Kelefa Sanneh, New Yorker, 6 Oct. 2025
The tennis ball demonstration encapsulates this philosophy, while showing not a pre-programmed set of movements, but a closed-loop perception-action system that interprets its surroundings and acts accordingly.
—Kaif Shaikh, Interesting Engineering, 6 Oct. 2025
Even during the most secluded communist era, Soviet ideology was a Russian iteration of Karl Marx’s philosophy.
—Nina Khrushcheva, Time, 3 Oct. 2025
Second, the defense tends to follow the philosophy of bend, but don’t break.
—Shreyas Laddha, Kansas City Star, 3 Oct. 2025
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Kelefa Sanneh, New Yorker, 6 Oct. 2025
The tennis ball demonstration encapsulates this philosophy, while showing not a pre-programmed set of movements, but a closed-loop perception-action system that interprets its surroundings and acts accordingly.
—Kaif Shaikh, Interesting Engineering, 6 Oct. 2025
Even during the most secluded communist era, Soviet ideology was a Russian iteration of Karl Marx’s philosophy.
—Nina Khrushcheva, Time, 3 Oct. 2025
Second, the defense tends to follow the philosophy of bend, but don’t break.
—Shreyas Laddha, Kansas City Star, 3 Oct. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for philosophy
Noun
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Even during the most secluded communist era, Soviet ideology was a Russian iteration of Karl Marx’s philosophy.—
Nina Khrushcheva,
Time,
3 Oct. 2025
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Divided by borders, and further fragmented by custom and belief into tribelets of ideology, each suspicious and distrustful of the other.—
Katie Bain,
Billboard,
3 Oct. 2025
Noun
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For now, Venegas’s lawsuit spotlights a growing clash between Supreme Court doctrine and on-the-ground enforcement.—
Robert Alexander,
MSNBC Newsweek,
3 Oct. 2025
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There was never a Blair doctrine or philosophy of government, unlike his predecessor, Margaret Thatcher.—
Tim Lister,
CNN Money,
1 Oct. 2025
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“Philosophy.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/philosophy. Accessed 12 Oct. 2025.
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