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adjective

Definition of agnosticnext
as in secular
not having or showing conviction about the existence of God As she grew older, she began to question the religious teachings of her youth and became more agnostic.

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noun

as in skeptic
a person who does not have a definite belief about whether God exists or not He was an agnostic despite his religious upbringing.

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Recent Examples of agnostic
Adjective
The future enterprise may need to be more compute-agnostic, meaning the ability to deploy workloads on resources that enables the best combination of performance, cost, resilience, throughput, security and business outcome. — Rajjie Sarmey, Forbes.com, 16 Oct. 2026 In practice, this game showed that the Spurs will be pretty point guard agnostic with that grouping. — Jared Weiss, New York Times, 15 Oct. 2026
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The exemplar of how controversy can turn sports agnostics into a captive audience is the ladies’ singles figure skating finals at the 1994 Lillehammer Olympics. — Anthony Crupi, Sportico.com, 20 Feb. 2026 As agnostics, we are also intrigued by the return of certain humanitarian values to Catholicism under Pope Francis — the idea of the Church as a place for the outcast. — Anna Marie De La Fuente, Variety, 16 Aug. 2025 See All Example Sentences for agnostic
Recent Examples of Synonyms for agnostic
  1. secular
  2. skeptic
  3. atheistic
  4. skeptical
Adjective
  • Where nationalist politicians emphasize the secular state and military service, Haredim see their religious study as service to the Jewish community.
    — Hannah Ridge, The Conversation, 23 Oct. 2026
  • Ben-Gvir, 50, was born into a relatively secular Jewish family of Iraqi and Kurdish descent in Mevaseret Zion, a suburb of Jerusalem.
    — Eric Cortellessa, Time, 22 Oct. 2026
Definition of secular
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  • But techno-skeptics have argued that warnings of doom are designed to inflate valuations and hype the technology.
    — Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 2 Nov. 2026
  • The results and outlook may not convince any skeptics to change their tune, especially as elevated gas prices remain a threat to consumer spending.
    — Kevin Stankiewicz, CNBC, 29 Oct. 2026
Definition of skeptic
Adjective
  • His father's death during World War II influenced his pursuit of the ministry even amid the officially atheistic communist regime of the Soviet Union, according to his obituary on the OCU website.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 20 Mar. 2026
  • But there has been a recent rise in secular congregations that explicitly mimic religious organizations and rituals to celebrate atheistic worldviews.
    — Jacqui Frost, The Conversation, 11 Jan. 2024
Definition of atheistic
Adjective
  • Ivan, the younger son, is doubtful and skeptical of his father, whereas Andrey, the elder, is faithful and trusting—the twin archetypes of man’s relation to the divine.
    — Joshua Yaffa, New Yorker, 2 Nov. 2026
  • He has been joined in recent years by tax-skeptical scholars at the Manhattan Institute and Tax Foundation.
    — M. Nolan Gray, Washington Post, 2 Nov. 2026
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