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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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Ultimately, some police skeptics saw the commission’s vote as the better of two outcomes — the other being the City Council, which would have been able to examine the pursuit policy had the volunteer body voted against a change.—
Shomik Mukherjee,
Mercury News,
26 Sep. 2025
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The tongue scan and iris scan—both purported to identify chronic conditions—raised my skeptic’s hackles.—
Peter J. Frank,
Robb Report,
25 Sep. 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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To the materialist atheist, these may not be serious considerations, but to the romantic who looks to signs and follows them to a happy ending, these are cosmic breadcrumbs that feed us, but may also lead us to the door of the witch who brews soup with children’s bones.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
8 Sep. 2025
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Karen came from a big Catholic family; Greg was an atheist and, like many atheists, proud of it.—
Alexandra Schwartz,
New Yorker,
25 Aug. 2025
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“Secularist.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/secularist. Accessed 5 Oct. 2025.
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