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Recent Examples of secularism
The answer, by and large, turns out to be secularism.
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Jessica Winter, New Yorker, 27 Feb. 2026
The influential author derides secularism and the modern world.
—Robert F. Worth, The Atlantic, 13 Feb. 2026
For her Rassemblement National, French secularism stands central—the engagement undermines republican values.
—Güney Yıldız, Forbes.com, 24 Jan. 2026
His plight meanwhile became a rallying cry for supporters of Indian secularism.
—Oscar Holland, CNN Money, 24 Oct. 2025
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Jessica Winter, New Yorker, 27 Feb. 2026
The influential author derides secularism and the modern world.
—Robert F. Worth, The Atlantic, 13 Feb. 2026
For her Rassemblement National, French secularism stands central—the engagement undermines republican values.
—Güney Yıldız, Forbes.com, 24 Jan. 2026
His plight meanwhile became a rallying cry for supporters of Indian secularism.
—Oscar Holland, CNN Money, 24 Oct. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for secularism
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At the same time, evangelists of a robust atheism—figures such as the biologist Richard Dawkins, the critic Christopher Hitchens, and the neuroscientist Sam Harris—toured the country offending salt-of-the-earth Americans with their contempt for religious belief.—
Elizabeth Bruenig,
The Atlantic,
26 Mar. 2026
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Although atheism is often associated with hyperrationality, this form of it is unapologetically irrational.—
Christopher Beha,
New Yorker,
14 Feb. 2026
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But in drawing upon those exact fields of study to reverse the long-term march toward unbelief, the authors appear to have missed the mechanism by which those prior discoveries eroded faith: namely, that people had staked their belief on evidence that was overturned by subsequent data.—
Elizabeth Bruenig,
The Atlantic,
26 Mar. 2026
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My own passage into and back out of unbelief—one marked by a close reading of works that earlier illiberal societies had attempted to suppress on religious grounds—has strengthened my liberal commitments.—
Christopher Beha,
New Yorker,
14 Feb. 2026
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“Secularism.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/secularism. Accessed 28 Apr. 2026.
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