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.
• 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 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
• Such German efforts are turning a page for the country after years of balanced budgets, driven by an orthodoxy of fiscal rectitude.
  — Craig Stirling, Fortune, 6 June 2020
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• As long as Jenkins maintains orthodoxy on key points such as these, the show’s fan base seems likely to give him leeway to color around the margins of his Bible.
  — Chris Deville, The Atlantic, 27 June 2021
• This might be where the television medium exceeds the power of orthodoxy to marshal it.
  — Kathryn Reklis, CNN, 7 Apr. 2023
• Their goal was clear: to reconcile with their subjects and restore the Egyptian orthodoxy.
  — Jason P. Dinh, Discover Magazine, 4 Nov. 2022
• To appeal to Gen Z and Millennials, the industry is allowing flexible shifts and shift-swapping, Lee says, a departure from the decadeslong orthodoxy of eight-hour shifts.
  — Paul Davidson, USA TODAY, 24 July 2024
• Fueled by a sardonic, tricky sense of humor reminiscent of Pavement’s caustic, idiosyncratic music, Perry’s film shows little patience for hagiography—or any other orthodoxy—in its nonlinear, absurdist approach.
  — Ryan Lattanzio, IndieWire, 14 Aug. 2024

Last Updated: 27 Oct 2024