orthodoxy

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Recent Examples of orthodoxy On Sunday, he was lionized as a Christian martyr and patriot committed to free expression and challenging liberal orthodoxy. Fortune, 22 Sep. 2025 This metastasized in Fusco as both a hyperawareness of how ideology can be exploited and an aversion to orthodoxy. Madeline Leung Coleman, Vulture, 18 Sep. 2025 Challenging orthodoxy and winning hearts and minds in the process. Brian Stelter, CNN Money, 10 Sep. 2025 Peppard believes that before organizations can deliver on the transformational potential of AI, or indeed any transformational technology, there are multiple canons defining the dominant orthodoxy that must be tackled head-on. Randy Bean, Forbes.com, 2 Sep. 2025 See All Example Sentences for orthodoxy
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conformity
Noun
  • Their grids of teenage faces are laid out like tract housing—a locus of conformity—and even at the outset, there was hell to pay for going your own way.
    Dan Piepenbring, Harpers Magazine, 24 Oct. 2025
  • In the studio, niche interests are exchanged for conformity and collective attention to breath and postures—at least on the surface.
    Calin Van Paris, Outside, 30 Sep. 2025

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“Orthodoxy.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/orthodoxy. Accessed 5 Nov. 2025.

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