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Recent Examples of heresy The administration can send senior officials abroad to soothe nerves, walk back the heresies, and reassure everyone that the hegemon is not, in fact, planning to take its marbles and go home. Gideon Rose, Foreign Affairs, 6 Mar. 2017 Read more New, hybrid Porsche 911 is a reason to celebrate, not scream Change this, not that: 2024 Porsche Cayenne review The 2025 Porsche Panamera is efficient, expensive and luxurious Brand loyalists called it heresy. Eileen Falkenberg-Hull, MSNBC Newsweek, 15 Apr. 2025 Like Anne Boleyn and Thomas More before him, Cromwell was transported to the Tower of London, where he was imprisoned on charges of treason; heresy; and, most implausibly, conspiring to wed Henry’s daughter Mary. Meilan Solly, Smithsonian Magazine, 20 Mar. 2025 With the rest of Christendom either lost to the Catholic heresy or under Muslim domination, it was left to Russia, as the Third Rome, to keep true Orthodoxy alive and the Antichrist at bay. Iver B. Neumann, Foreign Affairs, 3 Feb. 2017 See All Example Sentences for heresy
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Noun
  • The measure ratchets up Putin’s crackdown on dissent, which has intensified since Russia invaded Ukraine, one expert said, noting that the move to classify mobilization details was likely a reaction to Ukraine’s drone attacks.
    Semafor Events, semafor.com, 30 June 2025
  • Justice Sonia Sotomayor wrote in dissent for the three liberal justices that public schools expose children to different views in a multicultural society.
    Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 29 June 2025
Noun
  • Shalom Auslander’s literary career has been built on equal parts comedy, heterodoxy and self-loathing.
    Mark Athitakis, Washington Post, 25 July 2024
  • Trump’s heterodoxy and disruptiveness provided the equivalent of an enormous natural experiment, and the results were surprising.
    Oren Cass, Foreign Affairs, 12 Feb. 2021

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