How to Use agnostic in a Sentence

agnostic

1 of 2 noun
  • In flying, most people are brand agnostic, so long as the price is right.
    Ryan Craggs, CNT, 7 Aug. 2017
  • For beach agnostics, planning a trip to Maui is a challenge.
    Mark Arsenault, BostonGlobe.com, 13 June 2018
  • The trick to achieving a fluid wardrobe is to think of your core pieces as situation-agnostic.
    The Cut, 23 Feb. 2018
  • What this means is people who are openly atheists and agnostics can't be scouts.
    Lizzy Acker, OregonLive.com, 11 Oct. 2017
  • The service is agnostic about what is being stored and handles all file content the same way, as a collection of bytes.
    Samuel Axon, Ars Technica, 26 Feb. 2018
  • At one end of the spectrum were members of the clergy; at the other were agnostic and atheist scientists.
    Sam Wineburg, Smithsonian, 12 June 2019
  • Many of the algorithms researchers need to test in path planning are sensor-agnostic.
    Jack Stewart, WIRED, 29 June 2018
  • Just why so many agnostics, and even atheists, believe in a higher power is a matter of debate.
    Washington Post, 25 Apr. 2018
  • The term influencer was platform agnostic and described the growing and amorphous power that came with online fame.
    Taylor Lorenz, Washington Post, 5 Aug. 2022
  • His genre-agnostic sound, a natural fit for the streaming era, has also caught attention.
    Taylor Weatherby, Billboard, 26 June 2018
  • Sever says bioRxiv is agnostic about the particular pathways and models that might lead to that future.
    Jeffrey Brainard, Science | AAAS, 10 Oct. 2019
  • Making this role location agnostic allows us to recruit from a global pool of data scientists and helps us solve this resource crunch.
    Quartz India, 11 Feb. 2020
  • When the sun shines through and paints floors, walls, and people with moving color, the effect is aleatoric, agnostic, and otherworldly.
    Susan Tallman, The New York Review of Books, 25 Apr. 2020
  • Ensure software is bot-agnostic and can work seamlessly.
    Sudha Chandrasekharan, Forbes, 3 Aug. 2022
  • To make millions of tests available per week, the NIH project is agnostic about technology.
    Robert F. Service, Science | AAAS, 29 Apr. 2020
  • But in the case of Thor: Ragnarok, there are a few elements that might attract even the most Marvel-agnostic among us.
    Corey Atad, Esquire, 27 Sep. 2017
  • Maybe you’re agnostic on the whole question of romantic love and its place in the industrial-entertainment complex.
    New York Times, 15 Feb. 2018
  • Instead of building a streaming home for the Xbox, Mixer has remained platform-agnostic.
    Amrita Khalid, Quartz, 28 Jan. 2020
  • What if those shares are run by computers that are agnostic, or worse, have been programmed to pursue a narrow objective such as getting firms to pay a dividend at all costs?
    The Economist, 3 Oct. 2019
  • The guests range from Catholic parishioners to agnostics, and Jamel Oh trades jokes and quizzes them on Abrahamic religions.
    Scott Greenstone, The Seattle Times, 22 June 2017
  • True believers and agnostics shared the microphone easily.
    Samantha Melamed, Philly.com, 2 Nov. 2017
  • David insists he’s agnostic about shorting — but adds that China offers many shorting targets.
    Joseph N. Distefano, Philly.com, 14 Sep. 2017
  • Despite being an agnostic, mom enrolls Cathleen in Catholic school, and something about the church speaks to the girl’s unfulfilled longings.
    Mick Lasalle, San Francisco Chronicle, 3 Nov. 2017
  • Son seems to be industry agnostic, betting on information and data instead.
    Polina Marinova, Fortune, 23 Oct. 2017
  • For the comics agnostic: the Sinister Six are a collection of six villains that try once in a while to crowdsource the killing of Spider-Man.
    Bethy Squires, Vulture, 17 Nov. 2021
  • In the past 18 months, the FDA approved the first and second tissue-agnostic therapies.
    Scientific American, 2 Oct. 2019
  • As a result, any Thanksgiving dinner where weed enthusiasts are at the table is likely to also contain place cards for those who are agnostic or strongly opposed.
    Author: Lisa Bonos, Anchorage Daily News, 27 Nov. 2019
  • Cowherd, who seemed agnostic on the substance of the quarterback’s complaints about police brutality, still defended his decision to raise the subject via on-field protest.
    Ben Mathis-Lilley, Slate Magazine, 26 Mar. 2017
  • Curious agnostics can quiz Alexa on how to pray, what Christians believe and who the Archbishop of Canterbury is.
    The Economist, 23 May 2018
  • The fight industry is ripe for streaming given that its fans are young, platform agnostic and accustomed to paying for premium content via the sports' long tradition of pay-per-view.
    Marisa Guthrie, The Hollywood Reporter, 26 June 2018
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agnostic

2 of 2 adjective
  • For example, the study in press used the agnostic approach.
    Nicholette Zeliadt, Scientific American, 19 Apr. 2018
  • The best floral dresses are season agnostic, like this spring to fall to winter dress.
    Halie Lesavage, Harper's BAZAAR, 29 Dec. 2022
  • In the agnostic household of my childhood, that O’Hara line was gospel.
    New York Times, 22 June 2022
  • The conflict in Ukraine has upended the idea that products and services are agnostic.
    New York Times, 28 Mar. 2022
  • There’s no world in which that translates to device-agnostic cloud gaming.
    Cecilia D'anastasio, Wired, 29 June 2020
  • The kids want to use time travel to go back to Earth in the future, but the captain says no, and Eleven is agnostic.
    Amanda Whiting, Vulture, 23 Dec. 2021
  • How else to explain the agnostic stand of companies like Twitter?
    Jacob Silverman, New Republic, 17 Aug. 2017
  • Ten Eleven is stage agnostic and global, so the fund can invest past a startup’s seed stage.
    Bylucy Brewster, Fortune, 24 Jan. 2023
  • This is an agnostic solution that doesn’t attempt to judge the quality of each model.
    Scott K. Johnson, Ars Technica, 17 Nov. 2020
  • Obfuscation along with fuzzy thinking seems to be agnostic to age.
    Neil Senturia, San Diego Union-Tribune, 19 Aug. 2020
  • Pitbull is agnostic about genre — almost any sound or style can be put in service of his buoyant creations.
    Jon Caramanica, New York Times, 15 Mar. 2017
  • In this more agnostic age, picking up the Bible can be just as startling an act of rebellion in many households.
    Guy Lodge, chicagotribune.com, 27 Apr. 2017
  • The legacy of Latter-day Saint lingo lives on in my agnostic husband.
    The Salt Lake Tribune, 10 Sep. 2023
  • The reality is that Shopify long ago ceased to be just an agnostic builder of e-commerce websites.
    New York Times, 17 Nov. 2020
  • These traders appear to follow an agnostic long/short trading approach, lasting one to two weeks.
    Javier Paz, Forbes, 7 Dec. 2021
  • This certainly flies in the face of the old programmatic model, which was in many cases agnostic toward the source of an audience.
    Richard Marques, Forbes, 1 Mar. 2021
  • Others remain agnostic about the likelihood of further deep insights emerging from the quantum realm.
    Daniel Garisto, Scientific American, 22 Sep. 2022
  • Pro tracker is hardware-agnostic and loud and—most importantly—has a long range.
    Hunter Fenollol, Popular Mechanics, 25 Aug. 2021
  • Microsoft has preached its vision of a device-agnostic future as a way of breaking down barriers.
    New York Times, 19 Jan. 2022
  • The overall capital and bank lending allocation process still takes place in a fully carbon agnostic mode.
    Frank Van Gansbeke, Forbes, 4 Nov. 2021
  • The viewers as of this moment are mostly Christian, although over half of our cast and crew are agnostic or not of a particular faith background.
    The Salt Lake Tribune, 19 Nov. 2021
  • But movies, television, and music are all becoming more and more device-agnostic.
    Cecilia D'anastasio, Wired, 8 June 2020
  • The name change is part of an overall platform-agnostic vision of including different gamers who play on different devices.
    Elise Favis, Washington Post, 10 Aug. 2020
  • Contrary to the commission, the court’s attitude to antitrust appears to be business model–agnostic.
    Henrique Schneider, National Review, 11 Nov. 2020
  • So while officials may be agnostic on the precise natural rate, all of them are building an overshoot into their projections.
    Greg Ip, WSJ, 14 June 2018
  • The rise of Neutral Host platforms—neutral and agnostic to providers from connectivity to cloud.
    Dr. Ganesh Sundaram, Forbes, 1 Aug. 2022
  • What holds all this together is the music: a maximalist, genre-agnostic soundscape that includes both a licensed soundtrack and a score.
    New York Times, 14 Mar. 2022
  • As more and more protocol-agnostic vault strategies emerge, competing platforms need to even further incentivize users to choose them.
    Nicholas Gans, Forbes, 15 Nov. 2021
  • But suddenly, there was a reason to become more digital, more omnichannel and more agnostic.
    Hope Neiman, Forbes, 8 June 2021
  • Gender-agnostic names make gender-neutral names more modern.
    Marisa Lascala, Good Housekeeping, 15 Apr. 2022

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