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Adjective
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In the nineteen-seventies, Franciscan University, a small school on a hill above the downtown, became a center for charismatic Catholicism, an expressive, theologically orthodox movement that paralleled the development of the evangelical Jesus People and secular hippie culture.—
Emma Green,
New Yorker,
17 Apr. 2026 -
Trump is a political leader of a secular nation and has to make decisions within that context.—
Matt Fleming,
Oc Register,
16 Apr. 2026
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This story is told by an unnamed narrator, an irreligious woman who has joined the nuns as a lay resident after her faith in environmental advocacy crumbled.—
Robert Rubsam,
The Atlantic,
26 Mar. 2026
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There is Muslim representation on the group's advisory board of lay leaders.—
Karissa Waddick,
USA Today,
9 Mar. 2026
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Right now, her options are to try a different medication, have a temporal lobectomy, or get a neuromodulation device.—
Maggie Fremont,
Vulture,
17 Apr. 2026
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Zhe said the study is the first to reveal the trends in artificial light use with a level of temporal detail that distinguishes individual events and regional trends.—
Tereza Pultarova,
Space.com,
9 Apr. 2026
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“Nonchurch.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/nonchurch. Accessed 23 Apr. 2026.
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