secularist

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Noun
  • Indiana’s 2024 trek to the Eastern Conference Finals was met with skeptics as the team was still emerging, but that journey was validated by another deep playoff run in 2025.
    Tony East, Forbes.com, 15 July 2025
  • As usual, those tests will be left to the laboratory of social media, where trolls and skeptics alike wait to find out exactly what the world’s richest man has unleashed on the rest of us.
    Miles Klee, Rolling Stone, 10 July 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
  • There are Sunni and Shiite Muslims, atheists and Baha'is, Afghan and Iraqi refugees.
    Nuri Kino, MSNBC Newsweek, 20 June 2025
  • To match Silicon Valley’s escalating rhetoric, AI skeptics have ramped up their own, like atheists heckling from the pews at Mass.
    Matteo Wong, The Atlantic, 8 July 2025
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“Secularist.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/secularist. Accessed 26 Jul. 2025.

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