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Recent Examples of secularist
The American Revolution was, at heart, frankly and undeniably secularist.
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Adam Gopnik,
New Yorker,
8 June 2026
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
Adam Gopnik,
New Yorker,
8 June 2026
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
Recent Examples of Synonyms for secularist
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The health of the soil microbiome, the influence of lunar cycles on the plant’s sap, the energy that passes between the vine and its ecosystem—none of this can be seen, measured in a conventional laboratory or proven to a skeptic in 10 minutes.
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Slate, which also makes an electric SUV, is betting that its low price point can win over EV skeptics.
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Writing as a gay agnostic, Debbie Wasserman Schultz shares neither of my demographic elements.
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The military will now use 31 religious affiliations, down from more than 200, which included many small Protestant denominations as well as identifications for Wiccans, atheists and agnostics.
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Veena had been an atheist with dreams of becoming a physicist.
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Her poems inspire liberals and conservatives, atheists and believers, naturalists and urbanites.
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“Secularist.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/secularist. Accessed 30 Jun. 2026.
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