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The orthodox view held that deficits always raise borrowing costs, and the paper spent forty pages arguing otherwise.
Economics
His footwork is anything but orthodox, yet the odd hop step keeps defenders a half second behind him.
Basketball
The chef's method is thoroughly orthodox, and every sauce follows the sequence written in a hundred year old manual.
Cooking
The orthodox treatment for a sprain was strict rest, until trials showed that gentle early movement heals the ankle faster.
Medicine
The orthodox reading of Plato treats the dialogues as doctrine, though some scholars insist they were meant as open questions.
Philosophy
Orthodox advice says to hold bonds for safety, and the fund manager followed it even through a decade of near zero yields.
Finance
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