nonecclesiastical

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for nonecclesiastical
Adjective
  • Scheeres’s work also inspired me to research the troubled teen industry, the hidden arm of America’s prison industrial complex, a largely unregulated network of religious and secular therapeutic boarding schools, wilderness programs, private youth programs, and drug rehabilitation centers.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 22 Oct. 2025
  • The movie subsequently gave its monsters a more secular origin story, the spawn of science run amok rather than some malevolent force of evil.
    Richard Edwards, Space.com, 21 Oct. 2025
Adjective
  • This temporal displacement frees Pynchon to offer sidelong commentary on contemporary politics without getting trapped in the flux of the present or being too on the nose.
    Jack Denton, Vulture, 6 Oct. 2025
  • To practice ‘future temporal focused’ networking, create a timetable and ask yourself key questions.
    Sarah Maokosy, Fortune, 4 Oct. 2025
Adjective
  • Delbarton publicly acknowledged in 2018 that at least 30 men had come forward with allegations that, over three decades, 13 past or current priests and monks at the school had victimized them — in addition to a lay faculty member who is now retired.
    Corky Siemaszko, NBC news, 16 Oct. 2025
  • The meaning is not something that a lay person can necessarily intuit.
    John E. Jones III, The Conversation, 5 Sep. 2025
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“Nonecclesiastical.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/nonecclesiastical. Accessed 24 Oct. 2025.

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