secularist

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for secularist
Noun
  • The Critics And The Clarion Call Of course, there are skeptics.
    Pankaj Vasani, Forbes.com, 29 July 2025
  • Critics of multilateralism, detractors of foreign aid, and skeptics of free trade had long advanced this claim.
    STACIE E. GODDARD, Foreign Affairs, 28 July 2025
Noun
  • But that subgenre is far from the only religiously tinged music — created by everyone from devout evangelicals to open agnostics, from country artists to rappers — climbing the charts today; a number of pop songs are likewise courting the divine.
    Aja Romano, Vox, 8 July 2025
  • 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
Noun
  • There are Sunni and Shiite Muslims, atheists and Baha'is, Afghan and Iraqi refugees.
    Nuri Kino, MSNBC Newsweek, 20 June 2025
  • 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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“Secularist.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/secularist. Accessed 6 Aug. 2025.

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