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Recent Examples of orthodoxy
Finally, the proliferation of educational programs reflects – and creates – a need within orthodoxy.
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Michal Raucher, The Conversation, 19 Nov. 2025
In his telling, this attack on limits is legible in a host of current phenomena, including mass immigration, free-market orthodoxy, the rise of AI, overseas labor exploitation, the clear-cutting of rainforests, and new ideas about gender.
—Tyler Austin Harper, The Atlantic, 11 Nov. 2025
In line with the now hegemonic global free-trade orthodoxy, the markets demanded the balance sheet be attended to, with a chainsaw if necessary.
—Dónal Gill, The Dial, 28 Oct. 2025
Their anti-Trump entrenchment has calcified into left-wing orthodoxy that’s difficult to unwind.
—Nafees Alam, Boston Herald, 18 Oct. 2025
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conformity
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Simpson, the Republican Senate leader, said his caucus would fight any changes to the state tax code that break with rolling conformity to federal tax policy, as when state leaders preemptively passed a law last year that opted Colorado out of a federal change exempting overtime pay from taxes.—
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In the face of growing conformity, critical thinking skills are needed more than ever.—
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“Orthodoxy.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/orthodoxy. Accessed 20 Jan. 2026.
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