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Recent Examples of doctrinal
Most of the rest of the portfolio fits the doctrinal analysis laid out earlier.
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Jim Cramer, CNBC, 4 Feb. 2025
The report said Chinese doctrinal writings have called for using surprise attacks to destroy and paralyze an opponent's air force on the ground to seize air dominance, and the Chinese military has been building the appropriate capabilities to carry out such a series of attacks.
—Kevin Lynn, Newsweek, 7 Jan. 2025
While not all of the schools are linked to militancy, many promote a narrow interpretation of Islam, emphasizing doctrinal purity and the defense of Islam against other faiths.
—Zia Ur-Rehman, New York Times, 3 Jan. 2025
The pope, however, has not called for the practice to be criminalized and a 2023 Vatican doctrinal ruling pointed out that children born through surrogacy can be baptized.
—Antonia Mortensen, CNN, 19 Oct. 2024
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Jim Cramer, CNBC, 4 Feb. 2025
The report said Chinese doctrinal writings have called for using surprise attacks to destroy and paralyze an opponent's air force on the ground to seize air dominance, and the Chinese military has been building the appropriate capabilities to carry out such a series of attacks.
—Kevin Lynn, Newsweek, 7 Jan. 2025
While not all of the schools are linked to militancy, many promote a narrow interpretation of Islam, emphasizing doctrinal purity and the defense of Islam against other faiths.
—Zia Ur-Rehman, New York Times, 3 Jan. 2025
The pope, however, has not called for the practice to be criminalized and a 2023 Vatican doctrinal ruling pointed out that children born through surrogacy can be baptized.
—Antonia Mortensen, CNN, 19 Oct. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for doctrinal
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From a tense two-hander and a teen heist movie to a NSFW alien tale and a philosophical road trip from Hell, these titles played well on the big screen and deserve releases to serve the masses.—
William Earl,
Variety,
9 Apr. 2025
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The problem of mind-body dualism This all stems from a key problem of dualism, which is the philosophical idea that the mind and body are different things.—
Big Think,
Big Think,
12 Apr. 2025
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Another crucial component is dogmatic blind devotion to a single over-arching goal by AI.—
Lance Eliot,
Forbes.com,
4 Apr. 2025
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Many liberals and progressives were happy enough to get rid of the Communists, who had always been secretive, dogmatic, and, in general, hard to deal with.—
Beverly Gage,
The New Yorker,
10 Mar. 2025
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Yet there was an ideological war burbling underneath, all revolving around the question of what government exists to do.—
Owen Gleiberman,
Variety,
21 Apr. 2025
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This is obviously tendentious—nor does Stewart mean it entirely seriously—but, then, Lincoln, like Jesus, is easily made to conform to whatever ideological need the historian brings to him.—
Adam Gopnik,
New Yorker,
21 Apr. 2025
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After this period, Lennon and Ono would never again court the world’s attention with ambitious conceptual stunts or overt political protests.—
Jordan Runtagh,
People.com,
12 Apr. 2025
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The event’s lead designer, the late avant-garde architect Kenzo Tange, was known for conceptual floating cities and grand, outlandish megastructures.—
Hanako Montgomery,
CNN Money,
10 Apr. 2025
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Legacy power grids, water systems and emergency response networks are no longer theoretical.—
Marty Sprinzen,
Forbes.com,
7 Apr. 2025
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The Dutch theoretical physicist, now a professor emeritus at Utrecht University in the Netherlands, has spent much of the past half-century reshaping our understanding of the fundamental forces that knit together reality.—
Lee Billings,
Scientific American,
7 Apr. 2025
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The prose is confiding and, in places, pontifical.—
Judith Thurman,
The New Yorker,
24 Aug. 2020
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That revelation, coupled with other recent pontifical critiques, have quickly dissolved the notion that the Dec. 31 death of Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI, a symbolic leader of the church’s conservative wing, might lessen the opposition to Francis.—
Stefano Pitrelli,
Washington Post,
18 Jan. 2023
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“Doctrinal.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/doctrinal. Accessed 24 Apr. 2025.
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