secularist

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Noun
  • More than that, such skeptics ask, what other nation on earth is expected to provide humanitarian aid to its enemy during wartime?
    Ruth Margalit, New Yorker, 5 Aug. 2025
  • The picnic seems to have swayed some — but certainly not all — Highland Park skeptics.
    Nick Woltman, Twin Cities, 3 Aug. 2025
Noun
  • 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
  • Then-Vice President Kamala Harris, conversely, had significant majority support from Black protestants (85 percent), Jewish voters (65 percent), Hispanic Catholics (65 percent), agnostics (78 percent) and atheists (85 percent).
    Nicholas Creel, MSNBC Newsweek, 20 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • My first actual boyfriend was a punk and an atheist.
    Merve Emre, New Yorker, 17 June 2025
  • There are Sunni and Shiite Muslims, atheists and Baha'is, Afghan and Iraqi refugees.
    Nuri Kino, MSNBC Newsweek, 20 June 2025
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“Secularist.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/secularist. Accessed 20 Aug. 2025.

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