Example Sentences

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He lives in a pre-Copernican world of his own.

From Washington Post • Feb. 22, 2016

I feel bad about hating the movie—or, more specifically, about being nauseated by Albom’s pre-Copernican view of the universe—because I love the concept of the Hallmark Hall of Fame.

From Slate • Nov. 23, 2011

It is easy to understand pre-Copernican beliefs in a flat earth and similarly easy to account for the accumulation of popular myths about the cold before the disease's viral nature became clear.

From Time Magazine Archive

He suffers from what was once described as a pre-Copernican ego, i.e., seeing the whole world revolve around him.

From Time Magazine Archive

Yes, man’s origin was social; from the “Social Anthropoids,”—says Professor Huxley; and to omit the continuance of this social fact and law in sociology is worse than talking pre-Copernican astronomy.

From The Arena Volume 4, No. 23, October, 1891 by Flower, B. O. (Benjamin Orange)