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Recent Examples of heterodox 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 As a first-time candidate, Trump lit the GOP field on fire with his heterodox presidential campaign, while Rubio at one point represented the last, best hope for the establishment Republican Party. Haisten Willis, The Washington Examiner, 2 May 2025 Senators will probe the nominees about their personal lives, experience, heterodox views and promises to up-end the status quo at the departments they’ve been picked to lead. Jonathan Easley, The Hill, 13 Jan. 2025 Love Songs holds the hallmarks of an era of heterodox rap-hook writers, deep YouTube exploration, and DIY mash-ups and blends, but the loonier flips restore the ’89 feeling of wondering whether an exciting piece of collagework will one day be sued out of existence. Craig Jenkins, Vulture, 3 Dec. 2024 See All Example Sentences for heterodox
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Adjective
  • Michel was accused of helping Low run foreign-influence campaigns against the U.S., such as funneling money from Low to Barack Obama’s 2012 reelection campaign, as well as lobbying Donald Trump’s administration to drop an investigation into Low and extradite the dissident Chinese billionaire.
    Jon Blistein, Rolling Stone, 2 Sep. 2025
  • The film follows a reclusive mortician who faces an unusual request from a dissident singer in hiding.
    Zac Ntim, Deadline, 20 Aug. 2025
Adjective
  • Hiring him would be the most conventional aspect of a very unconventional media strategy.
    Max Tani, semafor.com, 8 Sep. 2025
  • With an unconventional research approach, a new screenwriter and an unestablished director, so much of the film was a leap of faith.
    Paul Fitzgerald, Rolling Stone, 8 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • These statements were heretical in Athens, where Anaxagoras lived.
    Manon Bischoff, Scientific American, 20 Aug. 2025
  • 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
  • Even as liberal-seeming Amir invites Yusuf to join the Muslim Association, an informal organization of male Arab landowners, Yusuf’s father is killed in a night-time confrontation with the settlers.
    Ritesh Mehta, IndieWire, 5 Sep. 2025
  • The only time this percentage has been higher since City joined the informal ranks of that group was in 2009, at the outset of their Abu Dhabi project.
    Chris Weatherspoon, New York Times, 5 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • Board member Renee Paschall cast the lone dissenting vote on the final package.
    Elizabeth Sander, San Antonio Express-News, 19 Aug. 2022
  • 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 11 Sep. 2025.

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