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a person who does not have a definite belief about whether God exists or not
He was an agnostic despite his religious upbringing.
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Recent Examples of agnostics
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.
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Anna Marie De La Fuente, Variety, 16 Aug. 2025
Anna Marie De La Fuente, Variety, 16 Aug. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for agnostics
skeptics
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And every time stocks have rallied, an equally relentless wave of skeptics has pared those gains.—
Jim Edwards,
Fortune,
9 Feb. 2026
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In this landscape, organizations such as the CDC, which once stood as unimpeachable examples of government competence, have become victims of their own success, appearing to skeptics to be inert or irrelevant.—
Vann R. Newkirk II,
The Atlantic,
9 Feb. 2026
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“Agnostics.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/agnostics. Accessed 15 Feb. 2026.
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