infidels

plural of infidel
as in dissenters
disapproving a person who does not believe in a religion that someone regards as the true religion The theocracy regarded as infidels anyone that did not practice their religion.

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Recent Examples of infidels During the Crusades, the Inquisition, and countless pogroms, Jews were demonized as infidels who refused to abandon their faith, even under threat of death. Avi Weiss, New York Daily News, 10 Aug. 2025
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Noun
  • What’s safe for Jews was itself a matter of disagreement among the bill’s backers and dissenters.
    CalMatters, Mercury News, 14 Oct. 2025
  • Jerusalem — On a hot Friday morning in September, dozens of Israelis turned up at Gaza’s border fence – not as soldiers, but as dissenters.
    Zeena Saifi, CNN Money, 5 Oct. 2025
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  • Five other members of the ring were jailed for a total of about 40 years, all accused of gathering detailed information on journalists, dissidents and Ukrainian soldiers being trained at a US military base in Germany.
    Nick Paton Walsh, CNN Money, 16 Oct. 2025
  • Also not fitting the West’s preconceptions was the fact that most Soviet dissidents didn’t reject socialism.
    Matthew Wills, JSTOR Daily, 3 Oct. 2025
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  • But a few renegades creatively defected across the pond, looking instead at America for inspiration.
    Leah Dolan, CNN Money, 23 Sep. 2025
  • VCs raining money on said brilliant renegades, despite signals that the market wasn’t quite mature enough and money was being lit on fire?
    Cortney Harding, Forbes.com, 25 Aug. 2025

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“Infidels.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/infidels. Accessed 26 Oct. 2025.

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