as in deconsecrated
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as in violated
to remove the sacred qualities or status of
complained that contemporary society has desacralized and trivialized the celebration of Christmas
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Adjective
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Giuditta Brozzetti founded this atelier inside a deconsecrated church in the 1920s in order to help local women earn a living by weaving textiles.—
Laura Itzkowitz,
Travel + Leisure,
16 Dec. 2025
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UMass Amherst likely violated a student’s First Amendment rights when the campus suspended the pro-Palestine protester for a year, a judge has ruled.—
Rick Sobey,
Boston Herald,
16 Feb. 2026
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As a result, the plaintiffs argued, the administration also violated the National Environmental Policy Act of 1969 by failing to consider the harmful environmental impacts of the project.—
Safiyah Riddle,
Los Angeles Times,
14 Feb. 2026
Adjective
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Her fiancé killed himself out of grief and was buried nearby on unconsecrated ground.—
Joe Kloc,
New York Times,
28 Feb. 2023
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There was the time that Patterson and a fellow altar boy—Patterson grew up in a devoutly Catholic family—almost got caught with a stash of unconsecrated Communion hosts that his friend had squirrelled away for post-Mass snacking.—
Laura Miller,
The New Yorker,
13 June 2022
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Officials determined that a total of 26 underground vaults and mausoleums were broken into or desecrated from November 2025 until the day Gerlach was caught.—
Alexandra Simon,
CBS News,
8 Jan. 2026
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In 1993, White Supremacists in Billings desecrated a Jewish cemetery, sent bomb threats to a synagogue and threw a brick at a menorah in the window of a five-year-old Jewish boy.—
David Goldman,
CNN Money,
16 Dec. 2025
Adjective
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Assad, a member of the Alawite religious minority, officially espoused a secular ideology.—
ABC News,
ABC News,
16 Feb. 2026
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But when many people within liberal societies do not feel that the system is working, when the practical case for liberalism comes into question, secular liberals don’t have much else to go on.—
Christopher Beha,
New Yorker,
14 Feb. 2026
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“Desacralized.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/desacralized. Accessed 18 Feb. 2026.
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