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as in atheistic
lacking religious emotions, principles, or practices
grew up in a nonreligious family
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as in secular
not involving religion or religious matters
a display of nonreligious holiday decorations on municipally owned property
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Recent Examples of nonreligious
Several nonreligious practices create opportunities to explore spirituality beyond religious affiliation.
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Morgan Shipley, The Conversation, 31 Oct. 2022
Indiana’s Choice Scholarship Program allows families to use state dollars that would have followed their child to a traditional public school to instead pay for a private, parochial or nonreligious school.
—Caroline Beck, IndyStar, 10 July 2025
Soldiers seeking a nonreligious exemption will need a temporary medical profile and an exception-to-policy memo from a lieutenant colonel in the chain of command.
—Mike Brest, The Washington Examiner, 8 July 2025
On a range of other views of government, political parties, and ideology in general, what’s happening with nonreligious young people is also happening among believers.
—Christian Paz, Vox, 7 Dec. 2018
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Morgan Shipley, The Conversation, 31 Oct. 2022
Indiana’s Choice Scholarship Program allows families to use state dollars that would have followed their child to a traditional public school to instead pay for a private, parochial or nonreligious school.
—Caroline Beck, IndyStar, 10 July 2025
Soldiers seeking a nonreligious exemption will need a temporary medical profile and an exception-to-policy memo from a lieutenant colonel in the chain of command.
—Mike Brest, The Washington Examiner, 8 July 2025
On a range of other views of government, political parties, and ideology in general, what’s happening with nonreligious young people is also happening among believers.
—Christian Paz, Vox, 7 Dec. 2018
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for nonreligious
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Researchers in Israel have found that ultra-Orthodox Jewish adolescents tend to fall asleep earlier and maintain more regular sleep schedules than their secular peers.—
Rabbi Bruce D. Forman,
Sun Sentinel,
21 Aug. 2025
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Stocks like Palantir , for which three or one rate cuts mean nothing in the face of their ties to artificial intelligence and other secular trends, were sold heavily Tuesday and into Wednesday’s session.—
Zev Fima,
CNBC,
21 Aug. 2025
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Raphael Bob-Waksberg’s 10-episode first season is an immensely moving, blisteringly funny temporal travelogue.—
Ben Travers,
IndieWire,
22 Aug. 2025
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The film, which is competing in Venice’s Horizons strand, continues Jenkin’s exploration of Cornish folklore and temporal themes.—
Naman Ramachandran,
Variety,
21 Aug. 2025
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Stewart’s switch from his usual snark to imitate Colbert’s buffoonery proved how spiteful and irreligious political humor has become since the left’s worship of Barack Obama and subsequent persecution of President Trump.—
Armond White,
National Review,
25 July 2025
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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
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On the fateful day that inbound Soviet bombers filled the skies above America with godless communism, the horizontal Bomarc missiles would literally become erect, and fire vertically.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
5 Aug. 2025
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Here, Lispector offers a counter to the godless existentialism of Sartre, which reduces one to a purposeless, directionless, and isolated state.—
Terry Nguyen
July 23,
Literary Hub,
23 July 2025
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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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Over time, my conquistadors retired, and my pagan temples got demolished to make way for grocery stores.—
Spencer Kornhaber,
The Atlantic,
12 Feb. 2025
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“Nonreligious.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/nonreligious. Accessed 31 Aug. 2025.
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