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For longtime supporters of Cuba’s revolution, Raúl’s moves seemed almost heretically bold.

From The New Yorker • Sep. 26, 2016

Reading in private gave people room to engage with a text, the freedom to think critically and sometimes heretically.

From Washington Post • Jun. 22, 2016

But, cheerfully and despondently, comically and tragically, reverently and heretically, he breaks—because he must be free to break—Fackenheim’s fearful commandment.

From The New Yorker • Jan. 4, 2016

Badiou's very odd, post-existentialist, heretically Marxist and defiantly anti-parliamentary conception of politics has a similar trajectory.

From The Guardian • May 18, 2012

Thenceforth Agnes Anne stood on a pedestal, and for a while one sturdy disciple of Calvin’s thought heretically of the pure doctrine.

From The Dew of Their Youth by Crockett, S. R. (Samuel Rutherford)