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as in atheistic
lacking religious emotions, principles, or practices
grew up in a nonreligious family
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as in secular
not involving religion or religious matters
a display of nonreligious holiday decorations on municipally owned property
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Recent Examples of nonreligious
By contrast, most nonreligious people accept the possibility of spontaneous remissions, inexplicable recoveries, and the rest of the medical mysteries that the Church calls healing miracles.
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Emily Harnett, Harpers Magazine, 28 Mar. 2025
Like the nonreligious resolutions, these tended to be all about me, my worshiping and my praying.
—Judy Knotts, Austin American-Statesman, 9 Apr. 2024
Our respondents included Christian, Jewish, Muslim and nonreligious individuals.
—Denise Daniels, The Conversation, 10 Apr. 2025
Others are young professionals, retired teachers, Republicans and Democrats, and religious and nonreligious people who are experienced in cross-cultural communication and jumping in for the first time.
—Carissa Zaffiro, Chicago Tribune, 14 Jan. 2025
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Emily Harnett, Harpers Magazine, 28 Mar. 2025
Like the nonreligious resolutions, these tended to be all about me, my worshiping and my praying.
—Judy Knotts, Austin American-Statesman, 9 Apr. 2024
Our respondents included Christian, Jewish, Muslim and nonreligious individuals.
—Denise Daniels, The Conversation, 10 Apr. 2025
Others are young professionals, retired teachers, Republicans and Democrats, and religious and nonreligious people who are experienced in cross-cultural communication and jumping in for the first time.
—Carissa Zaffiro, Chicago Tribune, 14 Jan. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for nonreligious
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Its followers, estimated to be in the millions in America, hold supernatural beliefs and goals of transforming secular society.—
Lauren Costantino,
Miami Herald,
12 June 2025
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The San Diego Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence will also be in attendance offering secular blessings.—
Lisa Deaderick,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
8 June 2025
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The people who had higher negativity bias were found to have reduced blood flow in the frontal, temporal and parietal lobes — regions critical for decision-making, memory and emotional regulation, according to Amen.—
Melissa Rudy,
FOXNews.com,
12 June 2025
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Stories offer a generosity of space—temporal, emotional, political—that real-time clinical work does not.—
Danielle Ofri,
New Yorker,
7 June 2025
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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
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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
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Shortly after hearing the stories of brave and faithful LGBTQ Catholics in Uganda, Pope Francis smartly and compassionately used his voice to warn against the unjust and godless laws.—
Josh Hammer,
MSNBC Newsweek,
21 Apr. 2025
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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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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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As de Kort tells Live Science, these treasures were buried in several deposits that might have constituted offerings to a pagan god—possibly Wodan, the Germanic persona of the Norse god Odin.—
Sonja Anderson,
Smithsonian Magazine,
12 Feb. 2025
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“Nonreligious.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/nonreligious. Accessed 19 Jun. 2025.
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