How to Use dogma in a Sentence

dogma

noun
  • These new findings challenge the current dogma in the field.
  • At the same time, a generation of conservative dogma had suddenly been washed away.
    Benjamin Wallace-Wells, The New Yorker, 28 Oct. 2024
  • Their dogma and rites have yet to be pulled from the fractal DMT space.
    Justin Higginbottom, The New Republic, 3 Jan. 2023
  • Maybe now is a good time to challenge the dogma that has been holding us back.
    James Breiding, Scientific American, 16 June 2021
  • The price of piety must be paid for protection — gotta love Catholic dogma.
    Brooke Knisley, Vulture, 24 Mar. 2024
  • The dogmas of the quiet past, are inadequate to the stormy present.
    Charles P. Pierce, Esquire, 21 Jan. 2012
  • As if somehow people were free to oppose that dogma and norms of the time. . . .
    Washington Post, 13 Jan. 2021
  • Only on the far right is such insane dogma is at the core of their beliefs.
    Will Oremus, Washington Post, 14 Dec. 2023
  • That childhood left me with little dogma on what has to be served on this day.
    Christian Reynoso, San Francisco Chronicle, 10 Nov. 2021
  • To be certain, Francis is the pope and is the one with the power to promulgate dogma.
    Jason Horowitz, New York Times, 13 Jan. 2020
  • This, rather than the finer points of the dogma, is what likely comes across as compelling to the people around you.
    Tarot Astrologers, Chicago Tribune, 19 Feb. 2023
  • For right-wing legal scholars, this makes Roe a point of dogma.
    Jill Filipovic, Time, 12 July 2018
  • In terms of dogma, 32% of Latino Catholics say they are bound by faith in such decisions.
    Los Angeles Times, 19 July 2022
  • Parents who want their children to be force-fed left-wing dogma will still be able to find schools that fill that bill.
    Dave Seminara, National Review, 10 Feb. 2022
  • Who are the anti-Paxxers, and how dangerous is their dogma?
    Rachel Gutman-Wei, The Atlantic, 22 Nov. 2022
  • But there’s a problem: Many who accept this dogma are the very people who need the government the most.
    Sean Illing, Vox, 17 Aug. 2018
  • The prevailing dogma says once a cardiomyocyte dies, there is no way to bring that cell back to life.
    Elizabeth Cooney, STAT, 2 Apr. 2018
  • And now, the man who Catholic dogma holds infallible as a teacher of the faith is trying to restrict the Latin Mass.
    Keith Bierygolick, The Enquirer, 13 Aug. 2021
  • To look beyond dogma and status quo to find new ways forward to a brighter future?
    David Ellenstein Writer, San Diego Union-Tribune, 5 Sep. 2021
  • Clearly, this world can be a more peaceful place, if each of us drops the dogma, adopts genuine openness.
    Rev. Elizabeth L. Greene, idahostatesman, 5 May 2017
  • So goes the central dogma that has ruled neuroscience since the early ’90s.
    Megan Molteni, STAT, 5 Nov. 2021
  • How to explain the Democrats’ sudden switch from free-trade dogma to free-trade restrictions?
    John R. MacArthur, Harper’s Magazine , 7 Dec. 2021
  • And toward truth, instead of false gods and clanging dogma.
    Madeleine Kearns, National Review, 24 Oct. 2019
  • The dogma states that the end of time is still being written, that the Time-Keepers are transforming it into utopia.
    Chris Smith, BGR, 7 July 2021
  • For me a good leader leads by example, rather than by dogma.
    Mahershala Ali, WSJ, 29 Oct. 2018
  • The dogma has long been that var genes are the harbingers of serious illness.
    Quanta Magazine, 15 Oct. 2015
  • At that time, scientific dogma held that the brain was the only organ in the body not ruled by the immune system.
    Donna Jackson Nakazawa, STAT, 17 Jan. 2020
  • But there is something touching about their devotion to one another and to the dogmas and rhythms of punk rock.
    A. O. Scott, New York Times, 14 Apr. 2016
  • The question now is whether the coronavirus might wipe the testing dogma clean, shaping a new path forward.
    Carolyn Barber, Fortune, 2 Mar. 2021
  • Galileo Galilei, a pioneer of physics, dared to challenge this dogma with evidence showing that the Earth revolved around the sun.
    Sunil Mehta, The Mercury News, 19 Sep. 2024

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