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Recent Examples of nonreligious 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 By the 1870s, Independence Day had become the most important nonreligious holiday for many Americans, and on June 28, 1870, Congress passed a law making Independence Day a federal holiday. Saman Shafiq, USA Today, 5 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 See All Example Sentences for nonreligious
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Adjective
  • In brief, the basic issue is the Second Amendment in a secular country.
    Chicago Tribune, Chicago Tribune, 3 Sep. 2025
  • What Happens Next Researchers say the secular transition is long‑running and generational, not a sudden shift.
    Jordan King, MSNBC Newsweek, 3 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • Context requires holding multiple layers of reality simultaneously—the organizational politics, cultural dynamics, personal histories, and temporal factors that shape every interaction.
    Michael Hudson, Forbes.com, 28 Aug. 2025
  • This pair of daring temporal adventurers makes hops, skips, and jumps along the time stream with Sam popping up randomly into different bodies throughout history.
    Jeff Spry, Space.com, 24 Aug. 2025
Adjective
  • 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
  • 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
Adjective
  • Predictably, the hubbub surrounding the photo was eventually framed as a war between uptight virgins and godless heathens, with a quieter contingent astounded only by the fact that this kind of marketing could still be so effective.
    Amanda Petrusich, New Yorker, 2 Sep. 2025
  • 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
Adjective
  • These wooden churches were once common across the country, built when Christianity was still new and pagan traditions lingered.
    David Nikel, Forbes.com, 25 Aug. 2025
  • Previous defense motions have also claimed that German and Williams' murders were actually a ritual sacrifice committed by Odinists, members of a pagan religion linked with White nationalism, per CNN.
    Jordana Comiter, People.com, 5 Aug. 2025

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“Nonreligious.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/nonreligious. Accessed 10 Sep. 2025.

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