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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
Founded in 2015, the church offers weekly Sunday meetings for a couple dozen participants who share in leading sermons in relation to their commitment to secular humanism, a nonreligious worldview that rejects belief in the supernatural.
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Morgan Shipley, The Conversation, 31 Oct. 2022
By contrast, most nonreligious people accept the possibility of spontaneous remissions, inexplicable recoveries, and the rest of the medical mysteries that the Church calls healing miracles.
—Emily Harnett, Harpers Magazine, 28 Mar. 2025
Like the nonreligious resolutions, these tended to be all about me, my worshiping and my praying.
—Judy Knotts, Austin American-Statesman, 9 Apr. 2024
Our respondents included Christian, Jewish, Muslim and nonreligious individuals.
—Denise Daniels, The Conversation, 10 Apr. 2025
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Morgan Shipley, The Conversation, 31 Oct. 2022
By contrast, most nonreligious people accept the possibility of spontaneous remissions, inexplicable recoveries, and the rest of the medical mysteries that the Church calls healing miracles.
—Emily Harnett, Harpers Magazine, 28 Mar. 2025
Like the nonreligious resolutions, these tended to be all about me, my worshiping and my praying.
—Judy Knotts, Austin American-Statesman, 9 Apr. 2024
Our respondents included Christian, Jewish, Muslim and nonreligious individuals.
—Denise Daniels, The Conversation, 10 Apr. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for nonreligious
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But today’s escalating tensions go back to 1953, when British oil companies and the CIA orchestrated a coup and installed the Shah of Iran, a secular ruler willing to accommodate Big Oil and other corporate interests in the West.—
Robert Polner,
New York Daily News,
23 June 2025
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While many are motivated by religious believes, other secular walkers do it as a ‘mindful’ journey, a physical achievement or as a practical way to explore European culture, historical sites and history itself.—
Cecilia Rodriguez,
Forbes.com,
22 June 2025
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While scholars like Resnik, Hosseini, Friesen, Floridi and Lin have proposed meaningful reforms, such as ethical AI education, diverse oversight and explainability principles, few focus on the evolving temporal relationship between humans and algorithms.—
Taposh Roy,
Forbes.com,
18 June 2025
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For Lyell, the material and the organic worlds belong to categorically distinct temporal orders.—
Lewis Hyde,
Harpers Magazine,
18 June 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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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
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Highlights of the book with the proudly, grammatically incorrect title include rants against nature, those godless Hollywood liberals, and how everything is trying to turn red-blooded Americans gay.—
Brian Boone,
Vulture,
18 June 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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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 5 Jul. 2025.
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