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also dogmata
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as in doctrines
a statement or body of statements concerning faith or morals proclaimed by a church
the Catholic dogma of the bodily assumption of the Virgin Mary
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as in ideologies
the basic beliefs or guiding principles of a person or group
the Golden Rule encompasses a dogma that can serve all mankind
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Recent Examples of dogmas
Jesus, who speaks in parables, not in dicta or dogmas, provides us with a primary instance of the power of the nonliteral tale.
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Adam Gopnik, New Yorker, 13 Apr. 2026
While they were aligned on (mostly) monochromatic looks, the sisters had different dogmas about their bags.
—Hannah Jackson, Vogue, 22 Jan. 2026
There’s a common, but untrue, narrative that certain sets of scientific dogmas, like the Earth being stationary and the center of the Universe, could not be challenged.
—Big Think, 30 Oct. 2025
Adam Gopnik, New Yorker, 13 Apr. 2026
While they were aligned on (mostly) monochromatic looks, the sisters had different dogmas about their bags.
—Hannah Jackson, Vogue, 22 Jan. 2026
There’s a common, but untrue, narrative that certain sets of scientific dogmas, like the Earth being stationary and the center of the Universe, could not be challenged.
—Big Think, 30 Oct. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for dogmas
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When citizens insist on shaping the basic terms of social life by appealing to premises that others cannot reasonably be expected to accept—revelation, doctrines of transcendence, private moral visions—the result is not a purer politics but a dangerously brittle one.—
Nikhil Krishnan,
New Yorker,
20 Apr. 2026
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This theology leaves little room for the restraint that characterized earlier security doctrines.—
Arie Perliger,
The Conversation,
7 Apr. 2026
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Yet my overall impressions of the exhibition—as a public forum of address, redress, and dialogue in which critical questions of public memory, regional identity, ideologies of nationalism, and the capacious field of site-specific sculpture can, if not should be borne out—are decidedly more mixed.—
Horace D. Ballard,
Artforum,
22 Apr. 2026
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With the industry elite divided by ongoing legal feuds and conflicting political ideologies, the personalities of the individual CEOs look set to shape the course of AI as much as the technology itself.—
Will Barker,
TheWeek,
21 Apr. 2026
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Still, their philosophies and tendencies remain to be learned.—
Dennis Lin,
New York Times,
27 Apr. 2026
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The coaches — Teisher for Mission Hills and Aaron Hooford for Escondido — had different philosophies coming into the game.—
John Maffei,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
25 Apr. 2026
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“Dogmas.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/dogmas. Accessed 30 Apr. 2026.
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