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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.
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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
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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
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for apostasy
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Unlike his isolated vote in 2006, the schism runs much deeper now.—
Frederic J. Frommer,
The Washington Examiner,
17 Oct. 2025
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In her autobiography, Mabel Dodge laid the blame for her schism with Stein firmly on one person.—
Via Scribner,
Literary Hub,
7 Oct. 2025
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Rajoelina had refused to step down despite escalating Gen Z demonstrations demanding his resignation and widespread defections in the army.—
CNN Money,
CNN Money,
14 Oct. 2025
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Versant last month filed its first financial reckoning with the Securities and Exchange Commission, and while the breakaway entity is still generating plenty of cash, the flow has been disrupted by the ongoing rash of customer defections.—
Anthony Crupi,
Sportico.com,
3 Oct. 2025
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Left-wing ideology accounted for 65, with other motivations, like foreign nationalism, Islamism, and separatism, accounting for the rest.—
CNN.com Wire Service,
Mercury News,
21 Sep. 2025
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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
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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.—
William A. Haseltine,
Forbes,
6 May 2022
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Wilson cautions more work is needed to explain how exactly spin results after scission.—
Charles Q. Choi,
Scientific American,
24 Feb. 2021
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In China, a new industry has emerged devoted to helping couples stay married in the face of infidelity.—
Jill Goldsmith,
Deadline,
24 Oct. 2025
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Summer Walker has addressed the infidelity accusations surrounding her ex-boyfriend Lil Meech.—
Mackenzie Cummings-Grady,
Billboard,
23 Oct. 2025
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That large firms armed with experts would fall into the trap of bidding in auctions in which the winner is cursed to lose was major heresy to economists.—
Emma Burleigh,
Fortune,
21 Oct. 2025
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In the value-investing, human discretion driven ethos of PIMCO this was heresy.—
Vineer Bhansali,
Forbes.com,
9 Sep. 2025
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There may be slight deviations from the podcast audio.—
Bill Goodykoontz,
AZCentral.com,
27 Oct. 2025
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To account for industry deviations, companies were evaluated based on their performance relative to the average within their respective industry.—
Katherine Fung,
MSNBC Newsweek,
24 Oct. 2025
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Read on to find out what contestants from across the country believe to be some of the greatest misconceptions about pageantry.—
Zoey Lyttle,
PEOPLE,
27 Oct. 2025
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Many CEOs could have been overwhelmed by the daunting challenge of simultaneously mastering media misconceptions on multiple fronts.—
Nick Lichtenberg,
Fortune,
27 Oct. 2025
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“Apostasy.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/apostasy. Accessed 28 Oct. 2025.
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