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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
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.
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Craig Jenkins, Vulture, 3 Dec. 2024
And after Trump’s administration banned the Associated Press from the White House briefing room for refusing to refer to the Gulf of Mexico as the Gulf of America, the heterodox Spectator columnist Bridget Phetasy had enough.
—Yair Rosenberg, The Atlantic, 20 Feb. 2025
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
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Craig Jenkins, Vulture, 3 Dec. 2024
And after Trump’s administration banned the Associated Press from the White House briefing room for refusing to refer to the Gulf of Mexico as the Gulf of America, the heterodox Spectator columnist Bridget Phetasy had enough.
—Yair Rosenberg, The Atlantic, 20 Feb. 2025
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
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for heterodox
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Eduard Limonov then—an appropriate nom de plume for a dissident poet arriving in 1974 New York, a metropolis of graffiti and project fires, of blackouts and serial killers.—
Ed Simon
June 23,
Literary Hub,
23 June 2025
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Jafar Panahi — the Iranian dissident filmmaker who has been arrested, jailed, and banned from filmmaking numerous times in his home country due to his powerful and provocative work — took home the top prize.—
Ryan Coleman,
EW.com,
26 May 2025
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The early detection of viral RNA in wild bird droppings, sometimes preceding official poultry outbreaks, suggests that unconventional surveillance in these biologically rich but infrastructurally sparse areas could play a larger role in pandemic risk mitigation.—
John Drake,
Forbes.com,
28 June 2025
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Now, in the weeks after its unconventional 22nd anniversary celebration, the label is set to launch one of its biggest — and most personal — compilations yet.—
Britt Julious,
Chicago Tribune,
27 June 2025
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People are angry’: Fear and chaos grip San Diego’s 47,000-strong federal workforce Rady Shell summer season will include Smokey Robinson, Beck, Cynthia Erivo and the Beach Boys Historic or heretical?—
Regina Elling,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
1 Mar. 2025
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In some communities, newer faiths, especially those that view traditional practices as heretical have weakened ties to sacred forests.—
Ogar Monday,
Christian Science Monitor,
8 May 2025
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The partnership was a crash course for them both: an informal academy with a class roster of two.—
Josh Rottenberg,
Los Angeles Times,
25 June 2025
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Chris Jackson/Getty Images At one stage, the king had hoped for a more informal meeting in Scotland, where the royals spend their summer holiday.—
Jack Royston,
MSNBC Newsweek,
25 June 2025
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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
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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 7 Jul. 2025.
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