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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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Mendelsohn — a leading skeptic of leaving City Hall — has argued the new police academy is the city’s most important project and should not be pushed aside, slowed down or allowed to balloon in cost.—
Chase Rogers,
Dallas Morning News,
26 Feb. 2026
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The group, nowstacked with vaccine skeptics, voted in December to recommend that parents who vaccinate their infants against hepatitis B ask for a blood test after the first dose to see if the full shot regimen is needed.—
Theresa Gaffney,
STAT,
26 Feb. 2026
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The exemplar of how controversy can turn sports agnostics into a captive audience is the ladies’ singles figure skating finals at the 1994 Lillehammer Olympics.—
Anthony Crupi,
Sportico.com,
20 Feb. 2026
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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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Defending religious liberty means defending it for Jews, Christians, Muslims, atheists and everyone else equally.—
Bobby Zirkin,
Baltimore Sun,
19 Feb. 2026
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And the invocation of Christian civilization leaves at best an uncomfortable marginality for atheists, Hindus, Sikhs, Buddhists, Muslims, and Jews.—
Eliot A. Cohen,
The Atlantic,
17 Feb. 2026
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“Secularist.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/secularist. Accessed 28 Feb. 2026.
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