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Recent Examples of heterodox The restaurant’s choices, it should be noted, are heterodox. 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 See All Example Sentences for heterodox
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Adjective
  • The regime in Tehran believed that, in 1981, the electrician, Mohammad Reza Kolahi—then a student and a member of an Iranian dissident group—had planted a bomb at the Islamic Republican Party’s headquarters, killing seventy-three people.
    Ed Caesar, New Yorker, 20 Oct. 2025
  • Among them were 17 members of the Iranian dissident organization Mojahedin-e-Khalq (MEK).
    Beth Bailey, FOXNews.com, 17 Oct. 2025
Adjective
  • The Minnesota Vikings took an unconventional approach to try to combat the tush push Sunday afternoon against the Philadelphia Eagles.
    Saad Yousuf, New York Times, 19 Oct. 2025
  • Spiro is known for sourcing unconventional materials for his singular creations.
    Jill Newman, Robb Report, 19 Oct. 2025
Adjective
  • In Charlton’s world, this was serious, almost heretical, praise.
    Michael Walker, New York Times, 11 Oct. 2025
  • These statements were heretical in Athens, where Anaxagoras lived.
    Manon Bischoff, Scientific American, 20 Aug. 2025
Adjective
  • The venue’s intimacy, coupled with a more informal, speakeasy vibe, permeated an award ceremony that was notable for its moments of laughter and easy congeniality.
    Leila Cobo, Billboard, 17 Oct. 2025
  • The Covid-19 pandemic meant that the research was slow to get off the ground and, more crucially, informal conversations Adamala had with colleagues in other fields, at conferences and other forums, began to sow alarm.
    Katie Hunt, CNN Money, 17 Oct. 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 24 Oct. 2025.

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