as in temporal
not involving religion or religious matters
that's an issue for the secular authorities, not the church
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Recent Examples of secular
Grace Gilson, Sun Sentinel, 31 Mar. 2025
If the businesses are sold at a good price, DuPont can take the cash proceeds and buy businesses in secular growing industries like water and health care.
—Jeff Marks, CNBC, 31 Mar. 2025
Isaac Chotiner, The New Yorker, 10 Mar. 2023
These data imply to me that the secular are getting idiocratic faster than the fundamentalists.
—Razib Khan, Discover Magazine, 16 Aug. 2012
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Adjective
But Pew also found in a separate survey that more than one in five Israeli Jews had switched between Jewish religious sectors — going from secular to religious Zionist, for example, or traditional to haredi Orthodox.
—Grace Gilson, Sun Sentinel, 31 Mar. 2025
If the businesses are sold at a good price, DuPont can take the cash proceeds and buy businesses in secular growing industries like water and health care.
—Jeff Marks, CNBC, 31 Mar. 2025
Noun
There was a change of heart among the secular nationalists during the second intifada—which started in 2000 and ended in 2005—in which seculars also joined forces.
—Isaac Chotiner, The New Yorker, 10 Mar. 2023
These data imply to me that the secular are getting idiocratic faster than the fundamentalists.
—Razib Khan, Discover Magazine, 16 Aug. 2012
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for secular
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
Noun
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In layman’s terms, this is a Champions League for clubs from North America, Central America and the Caribbean.—
Tim Spiers,
The Athletic,
25 Mar. 2025
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The remaining monks and a layman were rescued and were taken to the hospital.—
Leonard Greene,
New York Daily News,
12 Feb. 2025
Adjective
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The following year, city and state education officials determined that 18 Hasidic yeshivas were not providing a basic nonreligious education.—
Eliza Shapiro,
New York Times,
21 Feb. 2025
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Those of us who are religious must stand with our religious and nonreligious neighbors to have the moral imagination to cast visions for a world where political solutions are our friends and companion — not violence.—
Austin American-Statesman,
Austin American-Statesman,
6 Mar. 2024
Noun
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With minimal time and a layperson’s knowledge of accounting and investing, many people would welcome new, more sophisticated technology tools to help smooth essential transactions and facilitate smarter financial decisions.—
Expert Panel®,
Forbes,
24 Feb. 2025
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For the layperson, tell me what remastering does, and will people notice a difference in this new version?—
Katherine Turman,
SPIN,
3 Feb. 2025
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“Secular.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/secular. Accessed 16 Apr. 2025.
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