variants
or laic
as in irreligious
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Adjective
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Silverstein had a much different experience growing up, given the fact that his parents were both Baalei teshuva (irreligious Jews who become more observant later in life).—
Josh Weiss,
Forbes.com,
11 Apr. 2025 -
Finishing off the top 5 is religious flick The Forge with an irreligious weekend take-home of $6.6.—
Bethy Squires,
Vulture,
25 Aug. 2024
Adjective
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Its followers, estimated to be in the millions in America, hold supernatural beliefs and goals of transforming secular society.—
Lauren Costantino,
Miami Herald,
12 June 2025
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The San Diego Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence will also be in attendance offering secular blessings.—
Lisa Deaderick,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
8 June 2025
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The documents in which these doctrines were proclaimed stressed that the bishops of the church had been consulted and that the faith of the lay people was being affirmed.—
Dennis Doyle,
The Conversation,
8 May 2025
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There is an undeniable appeal of AI in the complicated U.S. tax space that often overwhelms even tax professionals, let alone the lay person.—
Virginia La Torre Jeker,
Forbes.com,
11 May 2025
Adjective
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This attempt to turn back the clock included the purging of Christian texts from schools, the conversion of Christian churches into pagan temples, and religious persecution as it had been practiced in centuries past.—
Miles Klee,
Rolling Stone,
22 Feb. 2025
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As de Kort tells Live Science, these treasures were buried in several deposits that might have constituted offerings to a pagan god—possibly Wodan, the Germanic persona of the Norse god Odin.—
Sonja Anderson,
Smithsonian Magazine,
12 Feb. 2025
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Shortly after hearing the stories of brave and faithful LGBTQ Catholics in Uganda, Pope Francis smartly and compassionately used his voice to warn against the unjust and godless laws.—
Josh Hammer,
MSNBC Newsweek,
21 Apr. 2025
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Compared with the heavenly bliss promised at the end of Revelation, Byron’s godless planet was bleak stuff indeed.—
Jennifer Szalai,
New York Times,
22 Jan. 2025
Adjective
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In Gaston County, school board meetings begin with a nondenominational, generic prayer, according to district spokesperson Todd Hagans.—
Nora O’Neill,
Charlotte Observer,
22 May 2025
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But a public school system could not authorize a daily prayer even if voluntary and nondenominational.—
Sophie Hills,
Christian Science Monitor,
29 Apr. 2025
Adjective
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Most recently, in 2022, the Supreme Court said Maine cannot limit a tuition assistance program to nonsectarian schools.—
Melissa Quinn,
CBS News,
22 May 2025
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In many states, laws are on the books that require charter schools to be run in a nonsectarian way.—
Zach Schonfeld,
The Hill,
30 Apr. 2025
Adjective
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The people who had higher negativity bias were found to have reduced blood flow in the frontal, temporal and parietal lobes — regions critical for decision-making, memory and emotional regulation, according to Amen.—
Melissa Rudy,
FOXNews.com,
12 June 2025
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Stories offer a generosity of space—temporal, emotional, political—that real-time clinical work does not.—
Danielle Ofri,
New Yorker,
7 June 2025
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“Laical.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/laical. Accessed 17 Jun. 2025.
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