as in ideology
the basic beliefs or guiding principles of a person or group our philosophy is to do no harm to anyone

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Recent Examples of philosophy There are various philosophies regarding what to do about these. New Atlas, 9 Sep. 2025 His overall philosophy obviously has not changed. Mike Sando, New York Times, 8 Sep. 2025 Explore philosophies that will give you a better self-awareness and get you closer to the true meaning of your life. Georgia Nicols, Denver Post, 7 Sep. 2025 Anne criticized the length and agreed with Ryan’s review that the script is often muddled and incoherent despite a hefty performance from Julia Roberts as a philosophy professor grappling with her student’s (Ayo Edebiri) against a colleague, played by Andrew Garfield. Ryan Lattanzio, IndieWire, 5 Sep. 2025 See All Example Sentences for philosophy
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Noun
  • My own daughter was recruited into a radical ideology.
    Stepheny Price, FOXNews.com, 13 Sep. 2025
  • Cosmists who believed in technology as a messianic force clashed not just with the Svyatogor camp, but also with the communists, whose guiding ideology of Marxism-Leninism was predicated on the dismantling of age-old social systems to establish a novel world order.
    Tim Brinkhof, Big Think, 12 Sep. 2025
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  • Fedorov and Svyatogor represent two sides of Cosmism, which Groys writes never had a unified doctrine.
    Tim Brinkhof, Big Think, 12 Sep. 2025
  • If that fails, youth could back a Prime Minister from outside Parliament, invoking the doctrine of necessity—though this risks overstepping constitutional limits.
    Sonal Nain, MSNBC Newsweek, 12 Sep. 2025

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“Philosophy.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/philosophy. Accessed 15 Sep. 2025.

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