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
  • 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
  • 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
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
  • 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
  • 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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