nonsectarian

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Recent Examples of nonsectarian The key difference is charter schools are privately operated, with most states, including Oklahoma, requiring they are run in a nonsectarian way. Lexi Lonas Cochran, The Hill, 30 Apr. 2025 For decades in California, those dollars have only been permitted to go to schools that are nonsectarian. Hannah Fry, Los Angeles Times, 30 Oct. 2024 But well before the album wraps up (at a hefty 22 songs for the standard version at 28 for the deluxe), he’s returned again and again to the core concepts — getting high, despising yourself and reaching out to God for help, in a nonsectarian way. Chris Willman, Variety, 12 Oct. 2024 The ruling said that the state’s Charter Schools Act, as well as the state and U.S. constitutions, allows only nonsectarian public schools and that the state is prohibited from using public money for the establishment of a religious institution. Michelle Boorstein, Washington Post, 25 June 2024 See All Example Sentences for nonsectarian
Recent Examples of Synonyms for nonsectarian
nondenominational
Adjective
  • The cost of repainting a section of exterior wall at a nondenominational Christian church in Euless in order to fully erase a crude political critique in red spray paint is at the heart of a trial underway this week in a state district court in Tarrant County.
    Fort Worth Star-Telegram, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 9 Sep. 2025
  • Funding will help with the costs for HVAC improvements needed for the nondenominational chapel, which was built in 1864 and is used for weddings and other celebrations, the news release said.
    Michelle Mullins, Chicago Tribune, 2 Sep. 2025

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

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