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Recent Examples of religiousness
There's a sort of a natural world religiousness or spirituality or philosophy that swells around a lot of things and different characters.
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Rebecca Ford, Vanity Fair, 6 Jan. 2026
Key measures of religiousness have remained remarkably stable since 2020, according to recent Pew Research Center polling.
—Jordan King, MSNBC Newsweek, 9 Dec. 2025
Rebecca Ford, Vanity Fair, 6 Jan. 2026
Key measures of religiousness have remained remarkably stable since 2020, according to recent Pew Research Center polling.
—Jordan King, MSNBC Newsweek, 9 Dec. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for religiousness
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Previously, there were more than 200 religions officially recognized.—
Voice of the People,
New York Daily News,
11 June 2026
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The Christian religion was only tolerated in the communist dictatorship, and other religious sects were forbidden.—
Christopher Vourlias,
Variety,
11 June 2026
Noun
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If this devoutness doesn’t come easy to him, that’s the point, conveyed with surprising humor and accumulating force.—
Claudia Roth Pierpont,
New Yorker,
24 Nov. 2025
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At the height of her piousness, Adele is confronted with a substitute English teacher, Bromley Stokes, a hippie from San Francisco, who, to her dismay, changes all the rules of school.—
Deborah Treisman,
New Yorker,
1 June 2026
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Christianity is one of the state’s primary means of control, but for the girls who grew up at the Aunt Lydia School, piousness is real.—
Amanda Whiting,
Vulture,
27 May 2026
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Better known by her pseudonymous social media handle Jerry Gogosian, Helphenstein left behind a complicated legacy, puncturing art world pieties with both satirical and serious memes and occasionally making inflammatory statements.—
Harrison Jacobs,
ARTnews.com,
3 June 2026
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So spare me the piety to the old postseason.—
Scott Dochterman,
New York Times,
1 June 2026
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The church service, part of the bishops’ spring assembly meeting in Orlando, Florida, draws from a mainstream, centuries-old Catholic devotion that focuses on Jesus’ sacrificial love for humanity.—
ABC News,
ABC News,
10 June 2026
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Lund said this came from Skarsgård being so heavily involved and stressed it is driven by his passion and devotion to the character and iconic source material.—
Max Goldbart,
Deadline,
10 June 2026
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“Religiousness.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/religiousness. Accessed 13 Jun. 2026.
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