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Recent Examples of apostasy
For some Democrats, Mr. Lieberman’s support of McCain two years later went beyond independence to apostasy.
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Michael H. Brown, Washington Post, 27 Mar. 2024
For religious Jews, the establishment of a state prior to the arrival of the Messiah was an apostasy.
—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
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Michael H. Brown, Washington Post, 27 Mar. 2024
For religious Jews, the establishment of a state prior to the arrival of the Messiah was an apostasy.
—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
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for apostasy
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In the nineteenth century, a schism between the industrial North and the agrarian, slaveholding South culminated in the Civil War.Michael Beckley, Foreign Affairs, 7 Jan. 2025
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Never mind the 25-year prison stint, the schism with his boss back home, or his upcoming trial: The man simply can’t stop smiling.Sean T. Collins, Vulture, 22 Sep. 2024
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The chamber is set to have a roughly two-vote majority when the package is voted on, meaning just a handful of GOP defections could sink the entire initiative.Andrew Solender, Axios, 8 Jan. 2025
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However successful the cost cutting was, X’s market value has now dropped to $9.4 Billion (according to Fidelity Investments) versus the $44 Billion Musk paid for it, due to dissatisfaction with its policies and performance and defections of advertisers and users to other social media platforms.Jerrold Lundquist, Forbes, 6 Jan. 2025
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Some Black critics, including W. E. B. Du Bois, denounced his Black separatist views and his relationship with the Ku Klux Klan, who shared Garvey's goal of racial separatism.Delano Massey, Axios, 4 Jan. 2025
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Their son Ben, one of the four pastors—two men, two women—who succeeded them, described the church’s strategy as invasive separatism.Dan Piepenbring, Harper's Magazine, 2 Aug. 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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Democrats on the Senate Armed Services Committee failed to land a decisive blow against Pete Hegseth, President-elect Trump’s nominee to serve as secretary of Defense, after several hours of tense questioning about his qualifications, views on women in combat, infidelity and drinking.Alexander Bolton, The Hill, 15 Jan. 2025
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Again, one needn’t endorse Trump’s infidelity or lies to observe that the spectacle disserves the country.The Editors, National Review, 15 Jan. 2025
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Following the recent unreliability and rumors of heresy, the remaining Hierarchs replaced the Sangheili with the Jiralhanae as their military leaders.Fran Ruiz, Space.com, 29 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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The system can detect a deviation from a forecast, for example, and yet understand that the deviation is in an allowable range and that an alert does not have to be generated.Steve Banker, Forbes, 13 Jan. 2025
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There may be slight deviations from the podcast audio.Bill Goodykoontz, The Arizona Republic, 13 Jan. 2025
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This imbalance perpetuates the misconception that listening is innate rather than cultivated.Tyler Shepherd, USA TODAY, 10 Jan. 2025
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That realization reinforced for me the importance of breaking stereotypes about introverts and challenging misconceptions.Kendra MacDonald, Forbes, 10 Jan. 2025
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“Apostasy.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/apostasy. Accessed 20 Jan. 2025.
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