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Recent Examples of secularist
The agency that comes with a liberal secularist society does not account for the structure that religion once provided in meaning-making.
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Literary Hub, 8 Sep. 2025
Literary Hub, 8 Sep. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for secularist
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There are plenty of skeptics countering the AI hype machine, though few professional market analysts have done so as stridently as Julien Garran, a researcher and partner at the UK firm MacroStrategy Partnership.—
Allison Morrow,
CNN Money,
18 Oct. 2025
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In the weeks that followed, the secretary also removed every member of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) vaccine advisory committee, replacing them with a merry band of loyalists and skeptics.—
Eli Cahan,
Rolling Stone,
16 Oct. 2025
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As agnostics, we are also intrigued by the return of certain humanitarian values to Catholicism under Pope Francis — the idea of the Church as a place for the outcast.—
Anna Marie de la Fuente,
Variety,
16 Aug. 2025
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But that subgenre is far from the only religiously tinged music — created by everyone from devout evangelicals to open agnostics, from country artists to rappers — climbing the charts today; a number of pop songs are likewise courting the divine.—
Aja Romano,
Vox,
8 July 2025
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Tom’s late wife was an atheist.—
Grace Byron,
Vulture,
6 Oct. 2025
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Weibel, following her interviews and observations, believes that the same gray area extends to astronauts: some are openly religious, some are atheists, others agnostic and more.—
Jessica Rendall,
Space.com,
6 Oct. 2025
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“Secularist.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/secularist. Accessed 26 Oct. 2025.
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