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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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That means Johnson can afford only one GOP defection to keep his seat of power.Mike Lillis, The Hill, 11 Dec. 2024
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The bad quarterback play, Davante Adams’ defection and season-ending injuries to four key defensive players were valid excuses before O’Connell’s injury, and now maybe the results of the final four games don’t matter.Vic Tafur, The Athletic, 9 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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So far, Loren has dropped several bombshells on Faith, including his STD diagnosis and his infidelity.Liza Esquibias, People.com, 17 Dec. 2024
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Busting 3 common myths about infidelity Clinical psychologist Talal Alsaleem has helped hundreds of couples work through romantic affairs.Malaka Gharib, NPR, 16 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, 11 Dec. 2024
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In comparison, this year's deviation, while notable, is less extreme.Amanda Castro, Newsweek, 4 Dec. 2024
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Despite how much these factors can impact our daily lives, there are still many misconceptions about who is most vulnerable and what employers can or should do to help.Sean Fogarty, Forbes, 9 Dec. 2024
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This is something called the therapeutic misconception, where patients believe that being part of an experiment, that experiment is actually intended to benefit them.Mandy Nguyen, Vox, 30 Nov. 2024
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“Apostasy.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/apostasy. Accessed 26 Dec. 2024.
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