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adjective

orthodox

adhering to what is commonly accepted

In a sentence

Six example sentences with orthodox, each labelled with its topic.

  • 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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