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secularist

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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. Literary Hub, 8 Sep. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for secularist
Noun
  • Scientists are natural skeptics, and his first instinct was to look for flaws.
    Lisa Jarvis, Twin Cities, 8 Nov. 2025
  • Regardless of whether his own feelings seeped into the show, Gilligan has been a vocal skeptic of artificial intelligence.
    Ethan Shanfeld, Variety, 7 Nov. 2025
Noun
  • 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
  • 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
Noun
  • Tom’s late wife was an atheist.
    Grace Byron, Vulture, 6 Oct. 2025
  • 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 6 Dec. 2025.

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