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Six example sentences with iconoclast, each labelled with its topic.
The gallery built its reputation on one iconoclast whose first show mocked every convention the city's collectors had paid for.
Art
Medicine has always needed the occasional iconoclast: handwashing was ridiculed for decades before any hospital adopted it.
Medicine
The composer was an iconoclast who wrote for typewriters and sirens, and the conservatory refused to program the work for years.
Music
Nietzsche wrote as an iconoclast, attacking the moral ideas his readers had inherited without ever examining them.
Philosophy
Keynes was the iconoclast of his generation, arguing that governments should spend in a slump when every textbook said save.
Economics
The coach was an iconoclast who benched his tallest player and started five guards, to the horror of every commentator.
Basketball
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