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or laic
as in irreligious
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Adjective
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Silverstein had a much different experience growing up, given the fact that his parents were both Baalei teshuva (irreligious Jews who become more observant later in life).—
Josh Weiss,
Forbes.com,
11 Apr. 2025 -
Finishing off the top 5 is religious flick The Forge with an irreligious weekend take-home of $6.6.—
Bethy Squires,
Vulture,
25 Aug. 2024
Adjective
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In other words, despite its seeming departure from Maine’s binary logic, the Second World was really a slice of the non-West that, contrary to expectations, embraced an explicitly secular and modernizing agenda: socialism.—
Zachariah Mampilly,
Foreign Affairs,
1 Apr. 2025
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But the church’s decision to make Catholic Charities a separate corporate entity means that this entity is not exempt from the state’s unemployment law — because Catholic Charities itself only provides secular services.—
Ian Millhiser,
Vox,
31 Mar. 2025
Adjective
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Being in the highest tertile (one third for the lay person) of cardio health, Bhatt said, will add close to a decade to your life.—
John Werner,
Forbes,
14 Mar. 2025
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Beyond lay undulating dunes and sand mountains.—
Sue Mead,
Popular Science,
13 Feb. 2025
Adjective
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This attempt to turn back the clock included the purging of Christian texts from schools, the conversion of Christian churches into pagan temples, and religious persecution as it had been practiced in centuries past.—
Miles Klee,
Rolling Stone,
22 Feb. 2025
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Over time, my conquistadors retired, and my pagan temples got demolished to make way for grocery stores.—
Spencer Kornhaber,
The Atlantic,
12 Feb. 2025
Adjective
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Compared with the heavenly bliss promised at the end of Revelation, Byron’s godless planet was bleak stuff indeed.—
Jennifer Szalai,
New York Times,
22 Jan. 2025
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The ranks of the godless have stopped growing for now.—
Lauren Jackson,
New York Times,
26 Feb. 2025
Adjective
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But defying that downward spiral are nondenominational evangelicals, a group that’s deeply religious but doesn’t necessarily embrace denominational labels.—
Liam Adams,
USA TODAY,
27 Feb. 2025
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At the same time, the share of nondenominational Protestants remains small (7% in the new study) but is on the rise (up from roughly 5% in 2007).—
Jennifer Agiesta,
CNN,
26 Feb. 2025
Adjective
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For decades in California, those dollars have only been permitted to go to schools that are nonsectarian.—
Hannah Fry,
Los Angeles Times,
30 Oct. 2024
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By the 1970s, however, Christian private schools outnumbered the nonsectarian ones, which inspired political activism among Christian evangelists who had shown little political interest previously.—
Michael Hiltzik,
Los Angeles Times,
23 Oct. 2024
Adjective
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There is a limit, which could be discussed as a temporal one.—
News Desk,
Artforum,
10 Apr. 2025
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When the master of timing departed our temporal world for a large and silent india-ink panel nine days shy of his 96th birthday, the cartoonist left behind an enormous body of work that still dances on the page.—
Art Spiegelman,
The Atlantic,
9 Apr. 2025
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“Laical.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/laical. Accessed 18 Apr. 2025.
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