apostasy

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Recent Examples of apostasy This is the apostasy of the age, refusing to give these spiritually lost characters their proper complexity. Armond White, National Review, 8 May 2024 The field has spent their resources mainly to bring Braun down a peg and promote their candidacies, in particular seizing upon comments Braun made in 2020 following the police murder of George Floyd in which the senator appeared supportive of Black Lives Matter, a conservative apostasy. Nathaniel Rakich, ABC News, 6 May 2024 For some Democrats, Mr. Lieberman’s support of McCain two years later went beyond independence to apostasy. Michael H. Brown, Washington Post, 27 Mar. 2024 Throughout its engagement with the OIC, the special envoy has prioritized the protection of human rights, routinely championing the equal rights of religious minorities and opposing laws that criminalize blasphemy and apostasy. Arsalan Suleman, Foreign Affairs, 24 Aug. 2017 See All Example Sentences for apostasy
Recent Examples of Synonyms for apostasy
Noun
  • Signs of a minor schism emerged at Sunderland last week, when Emery was critical of deadline-day acquisition Harvey Elliott.
    Jacob Tanswell, New York Times, 29 Sep. 2025
  • This brings us to the differences between the characters, which point to pivotal schisms between Anderson and Pynchon as storytellers.
    Andrew McGowan, Variety, 26 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • His defection was followed by that of Jean-Jacques Dessalines, who later led the freedom fighters to victory against the French and declared Haiti’s independence.
    Marlene L. Daut September 22, Literary Hub, 22 Sep. 2025
  • There would be another high-profile defection from the Tories to Reform.
    Sam Knight, New Yorker, 21 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Under Erdogan, Turkey has long supported different Islamist factions to further its strategic interests, especially the goal of countering Kurdish separatism on its southeastern periphery.
    Kamran Bokhari, Forbes.com, 15 Aug. 2025
  • In contrast to other, more mainstream Civil Rights organizations, SNCC leaders began to emphasize Black separatism, which alienated white participants.
    Time, Time, 7 Aug. 2025
Noun
  • 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.
    William A. Haseltine, Forbes, 6 May 2022
  • Wilson cautions more work is needed to explain how exactly spin results after scission.
    Charles Q. Choi, Scientific American, 24 Feb. 2021
Noun
  • Wole’s infidelity is an important inciting incident, but this moment of personal reckoning was inevitable.
    Cressida Leyshon, New Yorker, 28 Sep. 2025
  • This type of infidelity can stem from dissatisfaction in the relationship or a desire for something different.
    Melina Khan, USA Today, 25 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • In the value-investing, human discretion driven ethos of PIMCO this was heresy.
    Vineer Bhansali, Forbes.com, 9 Sep. 2025
  • The town’s new math is savage in that outrage decays, audiences pay, so ‘respect for Trump’s chops’ is suddenly a hard-nosed business note, not heresy.
    Brie Stimson , Larry Fink, FOXNews.com, 3 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • But these past two games have been a stark deviation from that clean brand of football.
    Daniel Popper, New York Times, 6 Oct. 2025
  • Screwing the MasterFrame 600’s graphics card brace to the lower edge of its open side was our only deviation from ordinary build practice.
    Thomas Soderstrom, PC Magazine, 4 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • What’s crazy is that the whole thing was a misconception.
    Jackie Strause, HollywoodReporter, 3 Oct. 2025
  • That misconception must be eradicated from our society.
    The Editors, JSTOR Daily, 2 Oct. 2025

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