How to Use heterodox in a Sentence

heterodox

adjective
  • But Thiel is a good fit with the more heterodox elements of the New Right.
    — Michelle Orange, Harper's Magazine, 3 Nov. 2023
  • But Thiel is a good fit with the more heterodox elements of the New Right.
    — Sam Kriss, Harper's Magazine, 16 Oct. 2023
  • Now McCain finds himself in a context that has brought out his heterodox side.
    — Jonathan Chait, Daily Intelligencer, 17 Oct. 2017
  • Latinos are more complicated and more heterodox than people give them credit for.
    — Jp Brammer, Los Angeles Times, 26 Oct. 2023
  • In Saito’s heterodox reading, there are two Marxes, only one of whom is correct.
    — E. Tammy Kim, The New Yorker, 1 Feb. 2024
  • The conversation around aging used to be more heterodox and more demanding.
    — Dan Piepenbring, Harper's Magazine, 23 Sep. 2024
  • But the heterodox, tolerant Islam that has set it apart from much of the Middle East is under threat.
    — The Economist, 18 Jan. 2018
  • Either Bloom will be proven to be a heterodox hardball thinker or a tinkerer who is in over his head in his crusade for sustainability.
    — Christopher L. Gasper, BostonGlobe.com, 13 Feb. 2023
  • The Free Press has won fans, and created plenty of fodder for critics, with heterodox columns and features.
    — Brian Stelter, CNN Money, 6 Oct. 2025
  • Trump has been a disrupter, and his policies, informed by his heterodox perspective, have set in motion a series of long-overdue corrections.
    — Nadia Schadlow, Foreign Affairs, 11 Aug. 2020
  • One reason, according to campaign veterans and endorsers, was that the party’s voters are more heterodox than their party.
    — David Weigel, Washington Post, 24 Mar. 2018
  • Senators will probe the nominees about their personal lives, experience, heterodox views and promises to up-end the status quo at the departments they’ve been picked to lead.
    — Jonathan Easley, The Hill, 13 Jan. 2025
  • Another is that many Americans enjoy listening to long-form discussions between guests who often have heterodox views.
    — David Harsanyi, National Review, 10 Feb. 2022
  • Partly in reaction, Campbell rebelled against authorities and defended heterodox ideas for their own sake.
    — Michael Saler, WSJ, 18 Oct. 2018
  • Hoyler, the son and brother of LCPS teachers and an occasional substitute himself, has netted one of the board’s most heterodox records since.
    — Teo Armus, Washington Post, 5 Nov. 2022
  • For years this small stone hall was a place of worship for local Alevis, heterodox Muslims who are estimated to form between a tenth and a fifth of the Turkish population.
    — Patrick Kingsley, New York Times, 22 July 2017
  • Tyrel Ventura, co-host of the evening show Watching the Hawks and son of Jesse, says his dad was ostracized from politics, then cable news, for his heterodox beliefs.
    — Bloomberg.com, 4 May 2017
  • Because the president is a foreign policy novice with heterodox views, Congress has been unusually eager to serve as backseat drivers for his diplomatic efforts.
    — Jeet Heer, New Republic, 20 June 2017
  • One of the reasons inflation got out of control in the 1970s is that policy makers had heterodox theories about its cause, such as powerful corporations and unions.
    — Greg Ip, WSJ, 8 June 2022
  • There are a lot of people working in the heterodox economic space, trying to overcome a barrier that the economics discipline has created for itself artificially.
    — WIRED, 5 Oct. 2022
  • Weiss, the founder of the heterodox opinion publication The Free Press, joined CBS News as editor-in-chief last year.
    — Suzy Khimm, NBC news, 4 Feb. 2026
  • Even many of the heterodox Founders with Deist sympathies like Jefferson perceived the Christianity of their day to be in a degraded condition.
    — Razib Khan, Discover Magazine, 27 Oct. 2011
  • The group has a longstanding commitment to ignoring the macroeconomic breakthroughs of heterodox economic thinkers in the tradition of John Maynard Keynes.
    — Alex Yablon, The New Republic, 4 Mar. 2021
  • Mollino—a heterodox figure who, from the margins, influenced the trajectory of twentieth-century design—likely never spent a single night there; its existence was only discovered after his death.
    — Javier Montes, Artforum, 1 Jan. 2026
  • Gabbard, a lieutenant colonel in the Army Reserve and combat veteran who was deployed to Iraq, is seen by some in Washington as a controversial pick due to her heterodox views on foreign policy.
    — Jonathan Easley, The Hill, 9 Dec. 2024
  • Early in November, just a few days before the election, a gathering of white nationalists, heterodox academics, libertarians, and other misfits of the right convened in Baltimore.
    — Osita Nwanevu, Slate Magazine, 23 Mar. 2017
  • At Cambridge, Alves holds the five-year position of Joan Robinson research fellow in heterodox economics, named for an influential but under-recognized economist.
    — Eshe Nelson, Quartz, 11 June 2019

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