How to Use orthodoxy in a Sentence
orthodoxy
noun- I was surprised by the orthodoxy of her political views.
- He rejected the orthodoxies of the scientific establishment.
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Can the Democrats pass something that will break from 40 years of tax-cut orthodoxy?
— Daniel Strauss, The New Republic, 10 Sep. 2021 -
But Valve, with its brand-new Steam Deck handheld, aims to shake up the orthodoxy for good.
— Luke Winkie, Vulture, 16 July 2021 -
But other than a shift to the left on trade issues, the party orthodoxy has held.
— Zaid Jilani, Washington Examiner, 31 Dec. 2020 -
The orthodoxy, though, hasn’t been able to withstand the weight of counter-evidence.
— Rich Lowry, National Review, 25 May 2021 -
Gone is the orthodoxy of stretching two hands to every shot.
— Joshua Robinson, WSJ, 13 July 2018 -
The time has come to nail a new set of theses to this secular orthodoxy’s door.
— Daniel Lee, WSJ, 12 Mar. 2021 -
As with language, so with thought: Step outside of orthodoxy, free the mind.
— Charles Arrowsmith, Los Angeles Times, 30 Sep. 2022 -
That doesn’t mean that she’s conformed to genre orthodoxy.
— Jewly Hight, New York Times, 25 Aug. 2022 -
In the Christian orthodoxy there’s the devil and there’s God, good and evil, doing right and doing wrong.
— Craig Jenkins, Vulture, 30 Nov. 2022 -
Since orthodoxy had gone out the window anyway, some games kicked off at 9 a.m. to make the whole schedule fit.
— Joshua Robinson, WSJ, 11 Dec. 2020 -
Despite decades as a staple of baseball orthodoxy, a walk is not quite as good as a hit.
— Tim Sullivan, The Courier-Journal, 6 June 2019 -
Only a handful of E.U. states broke with the bloc’s vaccine orthodoxy.
— Washington Post, 18 Mar. 2021 -
Not many teams rely on tight ends to be two of their top three receivers, but no one has accused the Ravens of orthodoxy on offense.
— Childs Walker, Baltimore Sun, 5 Sep. 2022 -
In the end, Mason is unsure what will come of the manifesto and the radical orthodoxy rhetoric.
— The Salt Lake Tribune, 5 Dec. 2020 -
But some of her past comments could diverge from its orthodoxy.
— Isaac Arnsdorf, Washington Post, 16 May 2022 -
Rossi was relieved of his duties at Grace for calling out the school for its antiracist orthodoxy.
— Nr Staff, National Review, 14 Sep. 2021 -
Stoking fears of a return to the 1970s helps obscure the long wreckage of the free-market orthodoxy that decade ushered to power.
— Aaron Timms, The New Republic, 31 Oct. 2022 -
But both within the album’s context and in and of themselves, Blount notes, the songs are free from religious orthodoxy.
— Katherine Proctor, Los Angeles Times, 17 Nov. 2022 -
Martin Luther’s challenge to Catholic orthodoxy was, of course, powered by the printing press.
— Cullen Murphy, The Atlantic, 10 Dec. 2019 -
That’s a sharp break from the reigning orthodoxy among antitrust lawyers and economists.
— Nicolás Rivero, Quartz, 6 Mar. 2021 -
This isn't the first time the school made headlines for pursuing a social justice orthodoxy.
— Carly Ortiz-Lytle, Washington Examiner, 1 Sep. 2020 -
In the Ben Bernanke years, the regional banks had presidents who challenged Fed staff orthodoxy, but not any more.
— The Editorial Board, WSJ, 23 Apr. 2021 -
Of the four, Mr. Yang seemed to be the most willing to diverge from union orthodoxy, seemingly hurting his chances for the endorsement.
— New York Times, 12 Apr. 2021 -
His wife, who took pride in her vegetarian orthodoxy, would’ve balked at the thought.
— Abhijith Ravinutala, chicagotribune.com, 20 July 2019 -
The stimulus package passed last week is, in this light, seen as a departure from orthodoxy and the dawn of a new era of economic thinking on the right.
— Alex Shephard, The New Republic, 30 Mar. 2020 -
And these figures, in turn, gained rapid celebrity on the right as brave truth-tellers to a hysterical orthodoxy.
— Ari Schulman, The New Republic, 15 June 2020 -
The fact that an orthodoxy exists is due to the fact that almost all of the economists of note and power in the government and in control of major economic publications come from a handful of institutions.
— Vipin Bharathan, Forbes, 17 Sep. 2024 -
The first groups of settlers, and still the majority of them, are part of the larger religious Zionist movement, which aspires to combine dedication to a Jewish nation-state with religious orthodoxy.
— Arie Perliger, The Conversation, 18 Sep. 2024
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