How to Use dogma in a Sentence
dogma
noun- These new findings challenge the current dogma in the field.
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Maybe now is a good time to challenge the dogma that has been holding us back.
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James Breiding,
Scientific American,
16 June 2021
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That childhood left me with little dogma on what has to be served on this day.
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Christian Reynoso,
San Francisco Chronicle,
10 Nov. 2021
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That’s a strong dogma that can override the screams of a baby.
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Christian Wiman,
Harpers Magazine,
23 Nov. 2025
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That’s a strong dogma that can override the screams of a baby.
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Christian Wiman,
Harpers Magazine,
30 Dec. 2025
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Rhyme schemes become secondary to dog-eat-dog dogma.
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Pitchfork,
10 Dec. 2025
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Only on the far right is such insane dogma is at the core of their beliefs.
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Will Oremus,
Washington Post,
14 Dec. 2023
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For right-wing legal scholars, this makes Roe a point of dogma.
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Jill Filipovic,
Time,
12 July 2018
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The price of piety must be paid for protection — gotta love Catholic dogma.
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Brooke Knisley,
Vulture,
24 Mar. 2024
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But neo-Brandeisian dogma is not designed to bring down prices.
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Jonathan Chait,
The Atlantic,
26 May 2026
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This pervading dogma has made young men scared to speak up, Nordean said.
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Will Carless,
USA TODAY,
10 Feb. 2025
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To her, this smelled of dogma no less than the Church’s certainties.
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Shai Tubali,
Big Think,
30 Sep. 2025
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To look beyond dogma and status quo to find new ways forward to a brighter future?
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David Ellenstein Writer,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
5 Sep. 2021
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Their dogma and rites have yet to be pulled from the fractal DMT space.
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Justin Higginbottom,
The New Republic,
3 Jan. 2023
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Who lived out the values teachings of Christ not as dogma, but as daily courage.
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Mandeep Rai,
Forbes.com,
26 Apr. 2025
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The early praise soon gave way to outrage over the book’s feminist dogma.
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Katharine Q. Seelye,
New York Times,
26 May 2025
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The prevailing dogma says once a cardiomyocyte dies, there is no way to bring that cell back to life.
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Elizabeth Cooney,
STAT,
2 Apr. 2018
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The dogmas of the quiet past, are inadequate to the stormy present.
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Charles P. Pierce,
Esquire,
21 Jan. 2012
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Still, the results are enough to question the dogma of hybrid works as a here-to-stay scenario.
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Hilary Tetenbaum,
The Enquirer,
28 Nov. 2024
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The science moves forward with data, not with dogma and with dismissal.
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CBS News,
19 Apr. 2026
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Clearly, this world can be a more peaceful place, if each of us drops the dogma, adopts genuine openness.
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Rev. Elizabeth L. Greene,
idahostatesman,
5 May 2017
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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.
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Tarot Astrologers,
Chicago Tribune,
19 Feb. 2023
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The dogma has long been that var genes are the harbingers of serious illness.
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Quanta Magazine,
15 Oct. 2015
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Then a high school teacher dared to question the scientific dogma of his day.
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Michael Melford,
National Geographic,
9 Mar. 2017
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Normies have not been blackpilled and are living a lie according to incel dogma.
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David Faris,
TheWeek,
8 Apr. 2026
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How to explain the Democrats’ sudden switch from free-trade dogma to free-trade restrictions?
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John R. MacArthur,
Harper’s Magazine ,
7 Dec. 2021
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Weak leaders try to resolve those tensions by picking one side and turning it into dogma.
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Dev Patnaik,
Forbes.com,
29 June 2026
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But there is something touching about their devotion to one another and to the dogmas and rhythms of punk rock.
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A. O. Scott,
New York Times,
14 Apr. 2016
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Kind of a pain — easier to have a dogma — but necessary and important all the same.
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Jay Nordlinger,
National Review,
26 July 2021
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To be certain, Francis is the pope and is the one with the power to promulgate dogma.
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Jason Horowitz,
New York Times,
13 Jan. 2020
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