How to Use heterodox in a Sentence

heterodox

adjective
  • But Thiel is a good fit with the more heterodox elements of the New Right.
    Sam Kriss, Harper's Magazine, 16 Oct. 2023
  • Trade was just one of many issues on which Trump took a heterodox stance in his campaign.
    Molly Ball, Time, 8 Mar. 2018
  • But that these views ever became heterodox in the first place should cause us great concern.
    WSJ, 3 Mar. 2020
  • But the heterodox, tolerant Islam that has set it apart from much of the Middle East is under threat.
    The Economist, 18 Jan. 2018
  • Now McCain finds himself in a context that has brought out his heterodox side.
    Jonathan Chait, Daily Intelligencer, 17 Oct. 2017
  • As president, he’s shown no sign of that heterodox campaign persona, driving Trump-curious Democrats back to the fold.
    Matthew Yglesias, Vox, 5 Apr. 2018
  • Hoyler, the son and brother of LCPS teachers and an occasional substitute himself, has netted one of the board’s most heterodox records since.
    Teo Armus, Washington Post, 5 Nov. 2022
  • Tyrel Ventura, co-host of the evening show Watching the Hawks and son of Jesse, says his dad was ostracized from politics, then cable news, for his heterodox beliefs.
    Bloomberg.com, 4 May 2017
  • Either Bloom will be proven to be a heterodox hardball thinker or a tinkerer who is in over his head in his crusade for sustainability.
    Christopher L. Gasper, BostonGlobe.com, 13 Feb. 2023
  • For years this small stone hall was a place of worship for local Alevis, heterodox Muslims who are estimated to form between a tenth and a fifth of the Turkish population.
    Patrick Kingsley, New York Times, 22 July 2017
  • Even many of the heterodox Founders with Deist sympathies like Jefferson perceived the Christianity of their day to be in a degraded condition.
    Razib Khan, Discover Magazine, 27 Oct. 2011
  • One reason, according to campaign veterans and endorsers, was that the party’s voters are more heterodox than their party.
    David Weigel, Washington Post, 24 Mar. 2018
  • One of the reasons inflation got out of control in the 1970s is that policy makers had heterodox theories about its cause, such as powerful corporations and unions.
    Greg Ip, WSJ, 8 June 2022
  • Decius is a longtime conservative, though a heterodox one.
    Kelefa Sanneh, The New Yorker, 9 Jan. 2017
  • The group has a longstanding commitment to ignoring the macroeconomic breakthroughs of heterodox economic thinkers in the tradition of John Maynard Keynes.
    Alex Yablon, The New Republic, 4 Mar. 2021
  • An online bandwagon promotes the most heterodox voices.
    Matthew Continetti, National Review, 16 Nov. 2019
  • Newton thoroughly lived this heterodox faith, as Mr. Iliffe documents.
    David Davis, WSJ, 4 Aug. 2017
  • But a partisan perspective must not stop those who oppose Trump from building the kinds of ideologically heterodox coalitions that will be needed to thwart his attacks on democracy.
    Yascha Mounk, Slate Magazine, 9 Feb. 2017
  • Another is that many Americans enjoy listening to long-form discussions between guests who often have heterodox views.
    David Harsanyi, National Review, 10 Feb. 2022
  • Partly in reaction, Campbell rebelled against authorities and defended heterodox ideas for their own sake.
    Michael Saler, WSJ, 18 Oct. 2018
  • Because the president is a foreign policy novice with heterodox views, Congress has been unusually eager to serve as backseat drivers for his diplomatic efforts.
    Jeet Heer, New Republic, 20 June 2017
  • There are a lot of people working in the heterodox economic space, trying to overcome a barrier that the economics discipline has created for itself artificially.
    WIRED, 5 Oct. 2022
  • At Cambridge, Alves holds the five-year position of Joan Robinson research fellow in heterodox economics, named for an influential but under-recognized economist.
    Eshe Nelson, Quartz, 11 June 2019
  • Early in November, just a few days before the election, a gathering of white nationalists, heterodox academics, libertarians, and other misfits of the right convened in Baltimore.
    Osita Nwanevu, Slate Magazine, 23 Mar. 2017
  • Weinstein’s concerns about PrEP are in line with his other heterodox positions, which often cut against the sexual-liberationist doctrine embraced by other activists.
    Christopher Glazek, New York Times, 26 Apr. 2017
  • For this reason, American conservatives were initially skeptical of the heterodox British philosopher.
    Nate Hochman, National Review, 18 Dec. 2020
  • Famous people and ordinary citizens alike have been fired from jobs, stripped of opportunities, and banished to a social-pariah wilderness for transgressing new language conventions or for expressing heterodox views.
    Harry Bruinius, The Christian Science Monitor, 29 Nov. 2021
  • There a wave of vicious campus activism aimed at silencing heterodox speakers, and it was typically empowered by a comprehensive regime of speech codes that exposed students to formal university discipline for daring to utter dissenting views.
    David French, National Review, 20 Aug. 2019
  • Friedersdorf: What about the boundary between engaging in heterodox intellectual inquiry and behavior that crosses a line into the harassment of an individual?
    Conor Friedersdorf, The Atlantic, 6 Feb. 2018
  • Pollock attended a workshop that Siqueiros conducted in New York, in 1936, teaching innovative techniques: using non-paint materials, airbrushing, and, among other heterodox procedures, dripping and pouring.
    Peter Schjeldahl, The New Yorker, 24 Feb. 2020

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