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According to the skeptics, rollers were too rare and too impractical to have been the starting point for the evolution of the wheel.—
Kai James,
JSTOR Daily,
3 July 2025 -
Since then: Several anti-voucher candidates unsuccessfully challenged incumbents, while pro-voucher challengers backed by dark money groups unseated a handful of voucher skeptics.—
Laura L. Davis,
The Tennessean,
2 July 2025
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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
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The lawsuit, filed in October 2024, includes 32 plaintiffs from diverse religious and cultural backgrounds—including Baptists, Catholics, Presbyterians, atheists, agnostics, and Indigenous community members.—
Russel Honoré,
Newsweek,
5 Mar. 2025
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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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Her friends are creatives, and in a country where a cleric is the supreme authority, many of them atheists.—
Jane Arraf,
NPR,
29 June 2025
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“Secularist.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/secularist. Accessed 19 Jul. 2025.
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