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The pre-revolutionary Sisters of Mercy were strongly associated with religious virtue but became increasingly secularized and professionalized during World War I. After the Bolshevik revolution in 1917, these nurses were reinvented as Soviet medical workers.
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Susan Grant, Foreign Affairs, 1 Nov. 2022
Early campaigns for financial reorganization gave way to ambitious attempts to secularize the inhabitants of monastic houses on a scale unseen in any other national church—with dramatic social as well as economic consequences.
—Crawford Gribben, WSJ, 29 Apr. 2022
Benedictines sympathize with the first two groups but tend to be more pessimistic about the prospects for national political or top-down solutions while the culture continues to secularize.
—Damon Linker, The Week, 13 July 2021
In the 1920s, the Mexican government’s attempt to secularize the country sparks a rebellion known as the Cristero War.
—Los Angeles Times, 26 Mar. 2021
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Susan Grant, Foreign Affairs, 1 Nov. 2022
Early campaigns for financial reorganization gave way to ambitious attempts to secularize the inhabitants of monastic houses on a scale unseen in any other national church—with dramatic social as well as economic consequences.
—Crawford Gribben, WSJ, 29 Apr. 2022
Benedictines sympathize with the first two groups but tend to be more pessimistic about the prospects for national political or top-down solutions while the culture continues to secularize.
—Damon Linker, The Week, 13 July 2021
In the 1920s, the Mexican government’s attempt to secularize the country sparks a rebellion known as the Cristero War.
—Los Angeles Times, 26 Mar. 2021
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for secularize
dissuade
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Other leagues, including the NBA, empower their commissioner to review disputes in arbitration or grievance proceedings, but sports leagues with teams are unique in ways that might dissuade the Supreme Court from taking the case.—
Michael McCann,
Sportico.com,
13 Feb. 2026
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Trump, just as the vote was wrapping up, issued a primary threat against those who opposed his tariff regime — potentially dissuading some Republicans running in tight seats from backing Democrats’ tariff resolutions.—
Emily Brooks,
The Hill,
13 Feb. 2026
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“Secularize.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/secularize. Accessed 21 Feb. 2026.
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