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Recent Examples of doctrinal
This air-to-sea command transfer represents a doctrinal advance.
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Munis Raza,
Interesting Engineering,
23 Mar. 2026
For them, suspicion of medical abuses continues, even as no doctrinal mandate per se rejects modern medical interventions.
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Cory Anderson,
STAT,
6 Mar. 2026
This doctrinal stance shaped Beijing’s early response.
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John Calabrese,
The Conversation,
6 Mar. 2026
His rigorist doctrinal chief, Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger—the future Benedict XVI—had moved to restrict Gutiérrez and other liberation theologians, leading to a standoff with CELAM, which had a long history with him.
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Paul Elie,
New Yorker,
5 Jan. 2026
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Munis Raza,
Interesting Engineering,
23 Mar. 2026
For them, suspicion of medical abuses continues, even as no doctrinal mandate per se rejects modern medical interventions.
—
Cory Anderson,
STAT,
6 Mar. 2026
This doctrinal stance shaped Beijing’s early response.
—
John Calabrese,
The Conversation,
6 Mar. 2026
His rigorist doctrinal chief, Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger—the future Benedict XVI—had moved to restrict Gutiérrez and other liberation theologians, leading to a standoff with CELAM, which had a long history with him.
—
Paul Elie,
New Yorker,
5 Jan. 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for doctrinal
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This raises a question that sounds philosophical but is becoming increasingly practical.
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The three men’s alignment on that philosophical premise means that Víg’s scores rarely require lengthy revision rounds.
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At all stages of history, Habermas shows, humanity has been trying to work out codes for the common good, and these surface even in times of dogmatic repression.
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If confidence, dogmatic beliefs, and undeniable talent were elixirs of life, Frank Lloyd Wright would be alive today, celebrating what would have been his 159th birthday.
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While both parties have long wrestled with warring factions in their ranks, the ideological rift is on full display this year, especially among Democrats, as democratic socialists test just how far to the left voters are willing to go.
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Cruelty, lies, and even deadly violence have been directed at political figures across the ideological spectrum.
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But any correspondence between string theory and experiment is gratifying to Vafa, who has spent the past four decades trying to wrest the theory from the purely conceptual realm to the point of generating testable predictions.
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Noah Rubin Rubin and his colleagues first proposed the design for this camera in a previous conceptual paper.
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Before that, the idea of one day becoming king was something distant and theoretical, a concept discussed in books and family history rather than something with immediate relevance to his own life.
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This stopped being theoretical just this month.
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Leo opened his visit to Pompeii by meeting with sick and disabled people who are cared for by a charity center affiliated with the sanctuary, which Leo’s namesake, Pope Leo XIII, declared a pontifical basilica in 1901.
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That public spat has overshadowed his pontifical tour of four African countries, which ended Thursday with a Mass for thousands of people in Malabo, the former capital of Equatorial Guinea.
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“Doctrinal.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/doctrinal. Accessed 27 Jun. 2026.
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