How to Use orthodoxy in a Sentence

orthodoxy

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  • I was surprised by the orthodoxy of her political views.
  • He rejected the orthodoxies of the scientific establishment.
  • 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
  • Gone is the orthodoxy of stretching two hands to every shot.
    — Joshua Robinson, WSJ, 13 July 2018
  • 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
  • The orthodoxy of the sport requires managers to use their closers for the ninth inning of deadlocked contests.
    — Andy McCullough, latimes.com, 25 Apr. 2018
  • Trump, far more than Sessions, likes to flout GOP orthodoxy.
    — Callum Borchers, Washington Post, 12 June 2018
  • Despite decades as a staple of baseball orthodoxy, a walk is not quite as good as a hit.
    — Tim Sullivan, The Courier-Journal, 6 June 2019
  • Few classes of quarterback prospects ever have threatened the NFL’s orthodoxy more than the one that’ll take the stage at the league’s draft on April 26.
    — Alex Putterman, The Atlantic, 23 Apr. 2018
  • 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
  • By the time Polanyi’s book was published, the Keynesian view had become orthodoxy.
    — Caleb Crain, The New Yorker, 7 May 2018
  • Martin Luther’s challenge to Catholic orthodoxy was, of course, powered by the printing press.
    — Cullen Murphy, The Atlantic, 10 Dec. 2019
  • 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
  • Such a prospect is one that the city’s antiquated water orthodoxy has never managed to fathom.
    — Tom Philp, The Mercury News, 6 Nov. 2024
  • Religion has been placed at the center of the family divide: Rodgers’ spirituality has drifted away from the Christian orthodoxy on which he was raised.
    — Sean Gregory, TIME, 16 Dec. 2024

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