How to Use orthodoxy in a Sentence

orthodoxy

noun
  • I was surprised by the orthodoxy of her political views.
  • He rejected the orthodoxies of the scientific establishment.
  • This is an amusing word choice for a man who hates orthodoxies of all kinds.
    — Andrea Long Chu, Vulture, 5 Aug. 2025
  • But some of her past comments could diverge from its orthodoxy.
    — Isaac Arnsdorf, Washington Post, 16 May 2022
  • Not since the early adapters and the quants learned that much of the orthodoxy of hitting was stone-cold wrong.
    — Tom Verducci, SI.com, 21 Mar. 2018
  • The time has come to nail a new set of theses to this secular orthodoxy’s door.
    — Daniel Lee, WSJ, 12 Mar. 2021
  • But other than a shift to the left on trade issues, the party orthodoxy has held.
    — Zaid Jilani, Washington Examiner, 31 Dec. 2020
  • 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
  • The four set lines enforce my preferred tab orthodoxy—four spaces, with tab and backspace both aware of this.
    — Lee Hutchinson, ArsTechnica, 6 May 2026
  • The orthodoxy, though, hasn’t been able to withstand the weight of counter-evidence.
    — Rich Lowry, National Review, 25 May 2021
  • Challenging orthodoxy and winning hearts and minds in the process.
    — Brian Stelter, CNN Money, 10 Sep. 2025
  • Science is supposed to be the search for truth, not the acceptance of orthodoxy.
    — The Editors, National Review, 10 Oct. 2024
  • Dissent from orthodoxy was outlawed, heresy was rooted out and punished by fire and sword.
    — Joseph Loconte, National Geographic, 27 Oct. 2017
  • His wife, who took pride in her vegetarian orthodoxy, would’ve balked at the thought.
    — Abhijith Ravinutala, chicagotribune.com, 20 July 2019
  • That’s a sharp break from the reigning orthodoxy among antitrust lawyers and economists.
    — Nicolás Rivero, Quartz, 6 Mar. 2021
  • But Valve, with its brand-new Steam Deck handheld, aims to shake up the orthodoxy for good.
    — Luke Winkie, Vulture, 16 July 2021
  • 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
  • The arguments and battles were bitter, but in the end the old orthodoxy was overthrown.
    — Alec Ryrie, CNN, 29 Oct. 2017
  • Rossi was relieved of his duties at Grace for calling out the school for its antiracist orthodoxy.
    — Nr Staff, National Review, 14 Sep. 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 that new, harsh light, The Ranch’s cis-white-male orthodoxy—and its stridency about that—has a nasty tang.
    — Richard Lawson, VanityFair.com, 21 June 2017
  • Beshear doesn’t shy from his Democratic pedigree, or stray from much of the party’s orthodoxy.
    — Los Angeles Times, 1 Feb. 2026
  • This might be where the television medium exceeds the power of orthodoxy to marshal it.
    — Kathryn Reklis, CNN, 7 Apr. 2023
  • 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
  • And these figures, in turn, gained rapid celebrity on the right as brave truth-tellers to a hysterical orthodoxy.
    — Ari Schulman, The New Republic, 15 June 2020
  • The move would be a break with GOP orthodoxy, and not everyone in the party is on board.
    — Brett Samuels, The Hill, 25 Apr. 2025
  • 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
  • In the end, Mason is unsure what will come of the manifesto and the radical orthodoxy rhetoric.
    — The Salt Lake Tribune, 5 Dec. 2020
  • 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

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