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Recent Examples of heterodox But policymakers should never again ignore the basics in pursuit of fanciful heterodox solutions. Jason Furman, Foreign Affairs, 10 Feb. 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 Gabbard, a lieutenant colonel in the Army Reserve and combat veteran who was deployed to Iraq, is seen by some in Washington as a controversial pick due to her heterodox views on foreign policy. Jonathan Easley, The Hill, 9 Dec. 2024 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
  • In one case, operatives posing as art dealers interested in purchasing a work by a dissident artist secretly installed surveillance equipment in his workplace and a GPS tracker on his car.
    David Faris, MSNBC Newsweek, 11 Apr. 2025
  • He’d been allowed through the security checkpoint to attend a session given by a professor at the university, a Tunisian dissident and political exile, a specialist in the liberation movements of the Global South.
    David Bezmozgis, New Yorker, 6 Apr. 2025
Adjective
  • That meant the movie, which sees an unconventional band of antiheroes brought together to combat a supervillain, escaped a decision by China to curb Hollywood imports earlier this month as part of its retaliation against the United States.
    Casey Hall and Sophie Yu, USA Today, 1 May 2025
  • From backing unconventional shows like Stranger Things to challenging Hollywood’s release models, Netflix has cultivated a ‘risk position’ that runs through its culture, structure, leadership, and decision-making.
    London School of Economics, Forbes.com, 30 Apr. 2025
Adjective
  • Puerto Rico and its flag, often used as a heretical emblem and a canvas for the brand’s designs, were deeply influenced by Maldonado’s early exposure to the culture.
    Tiana Randall, Forbes.com, 18 Apr. 2025
  • People are angry’: Fear and chaos grip San Diego’s 47,000-strong federal workforce Historic or heretical?
    Michael Smolens, San Diego Union-Tribune, 2 Mar. 2025
Adjective
  • These open-branching shrubs make an informal hedge that requires little pruning.
    Kim Toscano, Southern Living, 25 Apr. 2025
  • Reznick and some former Video Game Writers Caucus members continue to hold informal group meetings.
    Simon Abrams, HollywoodReporter, 25 Apr. 2025
Adjective
  • In the dissenting view, the star collapses to the edge of the event horizon and then hovers there, or rebounds and explodes.
    Corey S. Powell, Discover Magazine, 26 Feb. 2015
  • 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 6 May. 2025.

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