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as in dissident
deviating from commonly accepted beliefs or practices
a Christian clergyman with a very heterodox opinion on the divinity of Jesus
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as in unconventional
not rigidly following established form, custom, or rules
her heterodox approach to teaching science initially met with some resistance from her peers
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Recent Examples of heterodox
The restaurant’s choices, it should be noted, are heterodox.
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Gary Baum, HollywoodReporter, 29 July 2025
Kevin Carter/Getty Images The American Founding is complex; the Founders themselves were intellectually heterodox.
—Josh Hammer, MSNBC Newsweek, 4 July 2025
As the causes of and most effective treatments for AIDS came into view, Fauci and many prominent activists closed ranks against heterodox theories.
—Daniel Immerwahr, New Yorker, 19 May 2025
The original Brat offered a heterodox synth album and venting session dressed in pop-diva garments for normies caught in its flytrap, and Completely different reworks its source material, unraveling threads interwoven in Charli’s patchwork sound.
—Craig Jenkins, Vulture, 11 Oct. 2024
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Gary Baum, HollywoodReporter, 29 July 2025
Kevin Carter/Getty Images The American Founding is complex; the Founders themselves were intellectually heterodox.
—Josh Hammer, MSNBC Newsweek, 4 July 2025
As the causes of and most effective treatments for AIDS came into view, Fauci and many prominent activists closed ranks against heterodox theories.
—Daniel Immerwahr, New Yorker, 19 May 2025
The original Brat offered a heterodox synth album and venting session dressed in pop-diva garments for normies caught in its flytrap, and Completely different reworks its source material, unraveling threads interwoven in Charli’s patchwork sound.
—Craig Jenkins, Vulture, 11 Oct. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for heterodox
Adjective
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He had been involved in dissident circles since his student days, in the nineties.—
Jon Lee Anderson,
New Yorker,
29 Sep. 2025
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Karmitz touted France as a country where a company like mk2 can represent a diverse range of filmmakers, including current films by Iranian, Palestinian, and Russian dissident directors.—
Andreas Wiseman,
Deadline,
27 Sep. 2025
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The Rockets will need to find some unconventional sources of half-court shot creation with VanVleet sidelined with a torn ACL.—
William Guillory,
New York Times,
7 Oct. 2025
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The unconventional thriller played like gangbusters to the buzzing New York crowd.—
Patrick Ryan,
USA Today,
7 Oct. 2025
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These statements were heretical in Athens, where Anaxagoras lived.—
Manon Bischoff,
Scientific American,
20 Aug. 2025
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Although the French and Italian religious authorities welcomed their piety, those in Germany tended to suppress them as heretical and revolutionary.—
Michael Robbins,
Harpers Magazine,
20 Aug. 2025
Adjective
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Long sought-after by fans, Electric Nebraska is the informal title of the album that Springsteen and the E Street Band recorded in 1982 from a collection of demos for his follow-up to The River.—
Nina Corcoran,
Pitchfork,
3 Oct. 2025
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Use just one to three large informal dahlias with smaller additions like spray roses, cosmos, eucalyptus, or larkspur.—
Sophia Beams,
Better Homes & Gardens,
2 Oct. 2025
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Board member Renee Paschall cast the lone dissenting vote on the final package.—
Elizabeth Sander,
San Antonio Express-News,
19 Aug. 2022
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The document runs to more than a hundred and fifty pages, and for each question there are affirmative and dissenting studies, as well as some that indicate mixed results.—
The New Yorker,
The New Yorker,
3 June 2022
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“Heterodox.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/heterodox. Accessed 8 Oct. 2025.
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