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Recent Examples of apostasy
Snuffer is a lawyer who lives in Utah and was excommunicated from the LDS Church in 2013 for apostasy.
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Lizz Schumer, People.com, 29 Sep. 2024
This is the apostasy of the age, refusing to give these spiritually lost characters their proper complexity.
—Armond White, National Review, 8 May 2024
The field has spent their resources mainly to bring Braun down a peg and promote their candidacies, in particular seizing upon comments Braun made in 2020 following the police murder of George Floyd in which the senator appeared supportive of Black Lives Matter, a conservative apostasy.
—Nathaniel Rakich, ABC News, 6 May 2024
For some Democrats, Mr. Lieberman’s support of McCain two years later went beyond independence to apostasy.
—Michael H. Brown, Washington Post, 27 Mar. 2024
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Lizz Schumer, People.com, 29 Sep. 2024
This is the apostasy of the age, refusing to give these spiritually lost characters their proper complexity.
—Armond White, National Review, 8 May 2024
The field has spent their resources mainly to bring Braun down a peg and promote their candidacies, in particular seizing upon comments Braun made in 2020 following the police murder of George Floyd in which the senator appeared supportive of Black Lives Matter, a conservative apostasy.
—Nathaniel Rakich, ABC News, 6 May 2024
For some Democrats, Mr. Lieberman’s support of McCain two years later went beyond independence to apostasy.
—Michael H. Brown, Washington Post, 27 Mar. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for apostasy
Noun
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This is not the first time that there has been a schism among students at Hillel.—
Anemona Hartocollis,
New York Times,
25 Mar. 2025
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The schism had an immediate effect on the Ukrainian army’s U.S.-made High-Mobility Artillery Rocket Systems.—
David Axe,
Forbes,
5 Mar. 2025
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With their slim leads in both the House and Senate, Republicans can afford just a few defections.—
David Folkenflik,
NPR,
3 June 2025
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As lawmakers aim to send a bill to Trump by the Fourth of July, those demands could complicate the Senate's calculus for passage -- where Republicans can only afford three defections.—
John Parkinson,
ABC News,
2 June 2025
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The idea pushed by insurgent outfits — that Kashmir should be an independent state or join with Pakistan — has faded as Kashmiris have largely given up the idea of separatism.—
Showkat Nanda Atul Loke,
New York Times,
1 May 2025
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The impact of the financial crash in fueling the separatist crisis indicates the extent to which the crisis was brought about not only by historic nationalist sentiments but also by political developments unrelated to separatism.—
Omar G. Encarnación,
Foreign Affairs,
15 Dec. 2023
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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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Honey is typically in the business of infidelity, taking cases involving suspicious spouses and their philandering partners.—
Lovia Gyarkye,
HollywoodReporter,
23 May 2025
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The entrepreneur and wellness coach addressed rumors of infidelity while responding directly to a fan’s accusation on Instagram.—
Amber Corrine,
VIBE.com,
23 May 2025
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In short, the Catholic Church affirmed that the Jews are part of a living covenant and that antisemitism — including false charges of deicide — are heresy.—
Joshua Stanton,
New York Daily News,
20 Apr. 2025
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The administration can send senior officials abroad to soothe nerves, walk back the heresies, and reassure everyone that the hegemon is not, in fact, planning to take its marbles and go home.—
Gideon Rose,
Foreign Affairs,
6 Mar. 2017
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The recent evolution of Mexican food in New York has been gratifying, not so much because of deviation from the classics but by the refining of them and giving them a modern twist in terms of color, presentation and better ingredients.—
John Mariani,
Forbes.com,
4 June 2025
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Transcriptions of episodes of the Outside Podcast are created with a mix of speech recognition software and human transcribers, and may contain some grammatical errors or slight deviations from the audio.—
Outside Online,
Outside Online,
28 May 2025
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At the root of the underinvestment problem is a lingering misconception that women’s health is synonymous with reproductive health.—
Geri Stengel,
Forbes.com,
5 June 2025
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There seems to be a misconception among our political leaders that civic engagement is purely intuitive, that people fired up by a speech will somehow find their way to a city council meeting, a ballot initiative, a local organization’s strategy session.—
Adam Met,
Time,
3 June 2025
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“Apostasy.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/apostasy. Accessed 11 Jun. 2025.
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