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Recent Examples of doctrinal
Most of the rest of the portfolio fits the doctrinal analysis laid out earlier.
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Jim Cramer, CNBC, 4 Feb. 2025
The report said Chinese doctrinal writings have called for using surprise attacks to destroy and paralyze an opponent's air force on the ground to seize air dominance, and the Chinese military has been building the appropriate capabilities to carry out such a series of attacks.
—Kevin Lynn, Newsweek, 7 Jan. 2025
While not all of the schools are linked to militancy, many promote a narrow interpretation of Islam, emphasizing doctrinal purity and the defense of Islam against other faiths.
—Zia Ur-Rehman, New York Times, 3 Jan. 2025
The pope, however, has not called for the practice to be criminalized and a 2023 Vatican doctrinal ruling pointed out that children born through surrogacy can be baptized.
—Antonia Mortensen, CNN, 19 Oct. 2024
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Jim Cramer, CNBC, 4 Feb. 2025
The report said Chinese doctrinal writings have called for using surprise attacks to destroy and paralyze an opponent's air force on the ground to seize air dominance, and the Chinese military has been building the appropriate capabilities to carry out such a series of attacks.
—Kevin Lynn, Newsweek, 7 Jan. 2025
While not all of the schools are linked to militancy, many promote a narrow interpretation of Islam, emphasizing doctrinal purity and the defense of Islam against other faiths.
—Zia Ur-Rehman, New York Times, 3 Jan. 2025
The pope, however, has not called for the practice to be criminalized and a 2023 Vatican doctrinal ruling pointed out that children born through surrogacy can be baptized.
—Antonia Mortensen, CNN, 19 Oct. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for doctrinal
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But until then the cosmos is appreciated for its scientific and philosophical value.—
Bruce Dorminey,
Forbes.com,
23 Apr. 2025
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Through a lyrical and visually textured style, Brazilian director Fernanda Alves Salgado crafts a journey that’s both intimate and philosophical.—
Jamie Lang,
Variety,
17 Apr. 2025
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Many liberals and progressives were happy enough to get rid of the Communists, who had always been secretive, dogmatic, and, in general, hard to deal with.—
Beverly Gage,
The New Yorker,
10 Mar. 2025
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Another crucial component is dogmatic blind devotion to a single over-arching goal by AI.—
Lance Eliot,
Forbes.com,
4 Apr. 2025
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Aveline is known for his folksy, easy-going nature, readiness to crack jokes, and ideological proximity to Francis, especially on immigration and relations with the Muslim world.—
Philip Pullella, Crispian Balmer, Alvise Armellini, Joshua McElwee and Chris Scicluna,
USA Today,
21 Apr. 2025
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This is obviously tendentious—nor does Stewart mean it entirely seriously—but, then, Lincoln, like Jesus, is easily made to conform to whatever ideological need the historian brings to him.—
Adam Gopnik,
New Yorker,
21 Apr. 2025
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In this sense, generative A.I. might count as a conceptual win for my field.—
D. Graham Burnett,
New Yorker,
26 Apr. 2025
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That Cold War playbook—containment, deterrence, ideological messaging, and eventual collapse—became America's conceptual toolkit for managing future rivals.—
Thomas G. Moukawsher,
MSNBC Newsweek,
24 Apr. 2025
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Indeed, the risk of diversion from Plaintiff's sales is more than theoretical—the government can prove that Plaintiff actually sold LSD to a minor as well as an undercover officer.—
Thomas G. Moukawsher,
MSNBC Newsweek,
25 Apr. 2025
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Manchester United and Tottenham Hotspur, for example, can yet orchestrate a theoretical swing of close to £12million ($16m), a significant sum for those requiring summer rebuilds on finite resources.—
Philip Buckingham,
New York Times,
25 Apr. 2025
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Francis had established the Holy See’s first pontifical commission for the protection of minors early on in his reign.—
Christopher Lamb,
CNN Money,
24 Apr. 2025
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Turkson resigned from that role in 2021 and was appointed to head two pontifical academies on sciences and social sciences.—
Philip Pullella, Crispian Balmer, Alvise Armellini, Joshua McElwee and Chris Scicluna,
USA Today,
21 Apr. 2025
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“Doctrinal.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/doctrinal. Accessed 30 Apr. 2025.
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