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Recent Examples of secularize
Both began as missions established by Spanish colonizers that were later secularized and grew into towns after Mexico won its independence.
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Andrew Cunningham, Ars Technica, 26 Sep. 2023
Yet for all the rejoicing, American society continues to secularize.
—Steven P. Dinkin, San Diego Union-Tribune, 11 Dec. 2022
The pre-revolutionary Sisters of Mercy were strongly associated with religious virtue but became increasingly secularized and professionalized during World War I. After the Bolshevik revolution in 1917, these nurses were reinvented as Soviet medical workers.
—Susan Grant, Foreign Affairs, 1 Nov. 2022
Early campaigns for financial reorganization gave way to ambitious attempts to secularize the inhabitants of monastic houses on a scale unseen in any other national church—with dramatic social as well as economic consequences.
—Crawford Gribben, WSJ, 29 Apr. 2022
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Andrew Cunningham, Ars Technica, 26 Sep. 2023
Yet for all the rejoicing, American society continues to secularize.
—Steven P. Dinkin, San Diego Union-Tribune, 11 Dec. 2022
The pre-revolutionary Sisters of Mercy were strongly associated with religious virtue but became increasingly secularized and professionalized during World War I. After the Bolshevik revolution in 1917, these nurses were reinvented as Soviet medical workers.
—Susan Grant, Foreign Affairs, 1 Nov. 2022
Early campaigns for financial reorganization gave way to ambitious attempts to secularize the inhabitants of monastic houses on a scale unseen in any other national church—with dramatic social as well as economic consequences.
—Crawford Gribben, WSJ, 29 Apr. 2022
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for secularize
dissuade
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The gruesome images of tanks blown apart by drones in Ukraine did not dissuade anyone from purchasing these systems.—
Simon Shuster,
The Atlantic,
27 Mar. 2026
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Not even the Vatican taking offense to their swift affair could dissuade Taylor and Burton.—
Jami Ganz,
New York Daily News,
27 Mar. 2026
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“Secularize.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/secularize. Accessed 6 Apr. 2026.
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