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
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Noun
  • 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
  • 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
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 26 Oct. 2025.

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