How to Use dogma in a Sentence
dogma
noun- These new findings challenge the current dogma in the field.
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Their dogma and rites have yet to be pulled from the fractal DMT space.
—Justin Higginbottom, The New Republic, 3 Jan. 2023
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Maybe now is a good time to challenge the dogma that has been holding us back.
—James Breiding, Scientific American, 16 June 2021
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The price of piety must be paid for protection — gotta love Catholic dogma.
—Brooke Knisley, Vulture, 24 Mar. 2024
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As if somehow people were free to oppose that dogma and norms of the time. . . .
—Washington Post, 13 Jan. 2021
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Only on the far right is such insane dogma is at the core of their beliefs.
—Will Oremus, Washington Post, 14 Dec. 2023
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That childhood left me with little dogma on what has to be served on this day.
—Christian Reynoso, San Francisco Chronicle, 10 Nov. 2021
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To be certain, Francis is the pope and is the one with the power to promulgate dogma.
—Jason Horowitz, New York Times, 13 Jan. 2020
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This, rather than the finer points of the dogma, is what likely comes across as compelling to the people around you.
—Tarot Astrologers, Chicago Tribune, 19 Feb. 2023
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In terms of dogma, 32% of Latino Catholics say they are bound by faith in such decisions.
—Los Angeles Times, 19 July 2022
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Parents who want their children to be force-fed left-wing dogma will still be able to find schools that fill that bill.
—Dave Seminara, National Review, 10 Feb. 2022
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Who are the anti-Paxxers, and how dangerous is their dogma?
—Rachel Gutman-Wei, The Atlantic, 22 Nov. 2022
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And now, the man who Catholic dogma holds infallible as a teacher of the faith is trying to restrict the Latin Mass.
—Keith Bierygolick, The Enquirer, 13 Aug. 2021
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To look beyond dogma and status quo to find new ways forward to a brighter future?
—David Ellenstein Writer, San Diego Union-Tribune, 5 Sep. 2021
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So goes the central dogma that has ruled neuroscience since the early ’90s.
—Megan Molteni, STAT, 5 Nov. 2021
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How to explain the Democrats’ sudden switch from free-trade dogma to free-trade restrictions?
—John R. MacArthur, Harper’s Magazine , 7 Dec. 2021
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And toward truth, instead of false gods and clanging dogma.
—Madeleine Kearns, National Review, 24 Oct. 2019
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The dogma states that the end of time is still being written, that the Time-Keepers are transforming it into utopia.
—Chris Smith, BGR, 7 July 2021
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For me a good leader leads by example, rather than by dogma.
—Mahershala Ali, WSJ, 29 Oct. 2018
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At that time, scientific dogma held that the brain was the only organ in the body not ruled by the immune system.
—Donna Jackson Nakazawa, STAT, 17 Jan. 2020
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The question now is whether the coronavirus might wipe the testing dogma clean, shaping a new path forward.
—Carolyn Barber, Fortune, 2 Mar. 2021
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Kind of a pain — easier to have a dogma — but necessary and important all the same.
—Jay Nordlinger, National Review, 26 July 2021
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Her dogma is: The bigger your fabulous gets, the less room there is for hate and hostility.
—Anna Kaufman, USA TODAY, 29 June 2023
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Don’t be trapped by dogma — which is living with the results of other people’s thinking.
—Bay Area News Group, The Mercury News, 16 June 2019
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Don't be trapped by dogma -- which is living with the results of other people's thinking.
—Tom Page and Sana Noor Haq, CNN, 13 May 2021
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And, at the very least, doubt is the antidote to dogma and fanaticism and reductionism.
—Amanda Petrusich, The New Yorker, 23 Mar. 2023
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To Raisman, the images shattered the dogma that the nerves in the human body declined after infancy.
—Isaac Chotiner, The New Yorker, 12 Aug. 2021
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The stage, where dogma goes to die, isn’t meant to reinforce confirmation bias.
—Los Angeles Times, 21 Dec. 2020
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This kind of archaic dogma has no place in a modern-era church that is more in tune with humanity and its needs.
—Voice Of The People, New York Daily News, 14 June 2024
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Such is the fate of any old-school liberal or mainstream Democrat who deviates from progressive dogma.
—Pamela Paul, The Mercury News, 29 June 2024
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