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Recent Examples of apostasy
For religious Jews, the establishment of a state prior to the arrival of the Messiah was an apostasy.
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Gideon Lewis-Kraus, The New Yorker, 15 Feb. 2024
Betrayal, vengeance, invective, and apostasy: these are constants in the turmoil and carnival of American political history.
—David Remnick, The New Yorker, 10 Dec. 2023
In a political party that has evolved into a personality cult, her apostasy resides in her refusal to worship its leader and in her defense of the Constitution.
—David Remnick, The New Yorker, 10 Dec. 2023
Medieval Islamic laws, such as capital punishment for apostasy, are used to give an appearance of authoritative piety in present times.
—Iqbal Akhtar, The Conversation, 25 July 2023
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Gideon Lewis-Kraus, The New Yorker, 15 Feb. 2024
Betrayal, vengeance, invective, and apostasy: these are constants in the turmoil and carnival of American political history.
—David Remnick, The New Yorker, 10 Dec. 2023
In a political party that has evolved into a personality cult, her apostasy resides in her refusal to worship its leader and in her defense of the Constitution.
—David Remnick, The New Yorker, 10 Dec. 2023
Medieval Islamic laws, such as capital punishment for apostasy, are used to give an appearance of authoritative piety in present times.
—Iqbal Akhtar, The Conversation, 25 July 2023
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for apostasy
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There’s now a clear split between the Sun Belt and the Blue Wall A key schism has become deeper in recent weeks.Niall Stanage, The Hill, 2 Nov. 2024
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The Boar’s Head family schism appears to pit Martin and Brunckhorst on one side, and Bischoff on the other.Chloe Sorvino, Forbes, 27 Sep. 2024
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With 53 senators in the next Congress, Republicans can afford up to three defections and still win votes via Vice President-elect JD Vance's tiebreaking vote.Geoffrey Skelley, ABC News, 19 Dec. 2024
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The big picture: The late release means the House and Senate will have to scramble to approve it before current federal funding runs out on Friday — and avoid too many defections that could threaten its passage.Axios, Axios, 17 Dec. 2024
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Once shunned at the G20 summit in 2014 after his annexation of the Black Sea peninsula of Crimea from Ukraine and his stoking of separatism in Ukraine’s Donbas region, Putin was the man to speak to a year later.Nathan Hodge, CNN, 9 Dec. 2024
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Turkey Turkey supported some opposition groups and later began military operations in northern Syria, mainly to curb Kurdish separatism and prevent Kurdish forces from gaining too much power on its border.Hannah Parry, Newsweek, 6 Dec. 2024
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The second major structural change involves one of the hallmarks of SARS-CoV-2 as compared to SARS-CoV-1: initial scission at the S1 furin cleavage site.William A. Haseltine, Forbes, 6 May 2022
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When the nucleus ultimately disintegrates, these pieces move apart rapidly and the neck snaps quickly, a process known as scission.Charles Q. Choi, Scientific American, 24 Feb. 2021
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Power imbalance, psychological manipulation, and/or infidelity are commonly at play.Laura Ramadei, Los Angeles Times, 25 Dec. 2024
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One of Anna’s brothers, Daniel Keller, bashed Josh on social media in 2015, following the revelation of his pornography addiction and infidelity.Lynsey Eidell, People.com, 18 Dec. 2024
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That prompted the Vatican earlier this week to issue a statement stressing that the blessings don’t constitute heresy and there were no doctrinal grounds to reject the practice.San Diego Union-Tribune, San Diego Union-Tribune, 6 Jan. 2024
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That kind of heresy might require the Vatican to get involved.IEEE Spectrum, IEEE Spectrum, 28 Mar. 2012
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There may be slight deviations from the podcast audio.Amanda Luberto, The Arizona Republic, 23 Dec. 2024
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Treat the project as an experimentation project and make decisions to pivot to a new strategy or solution in scenarios where there is deviation from the original implementation.Buyan Thyagarajan, Forbes, 18 Dec. 2024
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That's a common misconception because, of course, famously Nosferatu was made without getting the rights to Dracula and Stoker's [estate] sued them for copyright infringement—tried to get the film destroyed, almost succeeded.Angela Watercutter, WIRED, 25 Dec. 2024
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Beyond tackling the prominent misconception that there were no more Indigenous people in the region, Abbott faced a multitude of challenges to increasing tribe membership.Andrea Durán, Baltimore Sun, 25 Dec. 2024
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“Apostasy.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/apostasy. Accessed 2 Jan. 2025.
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