How to Use agnostic in a Sentence

agnostic

1 of 2 noun
  • In flying, most people are brand agnostic, so long as the price is right.
    Ryan Craggs, CNT, 7 Aug. 2017
  • For beach agnostics, planning a trip to Maui is a challenge.
    Mark Arsenault, BostonGlobe.com, 13 June 2018
  • In the past 18 months, the FDA approved the first and second tissue-agnostic therapies.
    Scientific American, 2 Oct. 2019
  • But in the case of Thor: Ragnarok, there are a few elements that might attract even the most Marvel-agnostic among us.
    Corey Atad, Esquire, 27 Sep. 2017
  • The trick to achieving a fluid wardrobe is to think of your core pieces as situation-agnostic.
    The Cut, 23 Feb. 2018
  • For the comics agnostic: the Sinister Six are a collection of six villains that try once in a while to crowdsource the killing of Spider-Man.
    Bethy Squires, Vulture, 17 Nov. 2021
  • The service is agnostic about what is being stored and handles all file content the same way, as a collection of bytes.
    Samuel Axon, Ars Technica, 26 Feb. 2018
  • What this means is people who are openly atheists and agnostics can't be scouts.
    Lizzy Acker, OregonLive.com, 11 Oct. 2017
  • At one end of the spectrum were members of the clergy; at the other were agnostic and atheist scientists.
    Sam Wineburg, Smithsonian, 12 June 2019
  • The guests range from Catholic parishioners to agnostics, and Jamel Oh trades jokes and quizzes them on Abrahamic religions.
    Scott Greenstone, The Seattle Times, 22 June 2017
  • Many of the algorithms researchers need to test in path planning are sensor-agnostic.
    Jack Stewart, WIRED, 29 June 2018
  • To make millions of tests available per week, the NIH project is agnostic about technology.
    Robert F. Service, Science | AAAS, 29 Apr. 2020
  • When the sun shines through and paints floors, walls, and people with moving color, the effect is aleatoric, agnostic, and otherworldly.
    Susan Tallman, The New York Review of Books, 25 Apr. 2020
  • Just why so many agnostics, and even atheists, believe in a higher power is a matter of debate.
    Washington Post, 25 Apr. 2018
  • One once walked the runway as out-of-drag RuPaul, looking 100 percent gender-agnostic.
    Spencer Kornhaber, The Atlantic, 6 Mar. 2018
  • Despite being an agnostic, mom enrolls Cathleen in Catholic school, and something about the church speaks to the girl’s unfulfilled longings.
    Mick Lasalle, San Francisco Chronicle, 3 Nov. 2017
  • Instead of building a streaming home for the Xbox, Mixer has remained platform-agnostic.
    Amrita Khalid, Quartz, 28 Jan. 2020
  • His genre-agnostic sound, a natural fit for the streaming era, has also caught attention.
    Taylor Weatherby, Billboard, 26 June 2018
  • The term influencer was platform agnostic and described the growing and amorphous power that came with online fame.
    Taylor Lorenz, Washington Post, 5 Aug. 2022
  • Curious agnostics can quiz Alexa on how to pray, what Christians believe and who the Archbishop of Canterbury is.
    The Economist, 23 May 2018
  • Scoring was also mode agnostic, meaning ridehailing services like Uber and Lyft, or bikehare, earned as many points as a bus line.
    Patrick Sisson, Curbed, 2 May 2018
  • Sever says bioRxiv is agnostic about the particular pathways and models that might lead to that future.
    Jeffrey Brainard, Science | AAAS, 10 Oct. 2019
  • In his world, the Supreme Court is an agnostic, apolitical body — above and beyond the influence of partisanship or corrosive forces that have nothing to do with the law.
    Cristian Farias, Daily Intelligencer, 18 June 2018
  • And until cloud gaming, there was no mass-market Netflix for videogames—on-demand content that’s device-agnostic.
    Cecilia D'anastasio, Wired, 29 June 2020
  • CISOs must now devise strategies to ensure that data is protected (often at the record level) in a manner agnostic to where it is stored or processed.
    Ameesh Divatia, Forbes, 2 June 2022
  • But as Social Capital begins to expand and veer toward being stage-agnostic, some people aren’t on board with the direction the firm is taking.
    Polina Marinova, Fortune, 26 Oct. 2017
  • What if those shares are run by computers that are agnostic, or worse, have been programmed to pursue a narrow objective such as getting firms to pay a dividend at all costs?
    The Economist, 3 Oct. 2019
  • But the game-agnostic screen sampler is probably more alluring, given the fractured RGB sector.
    Hayden Dingman, PCWorld, 15 Mar. 2018
  • Fair Square, which employs about 25 people, has tailored its service to be commission agnostic, according to Petkevich.
    Mike Freeman, San Diego Union-Tribune, 25 Aug. 2022
  • In 2018, the ACTA (which is real vs. artificial tree agnostic) commissioned a life-cycle assessment of the carbon footprint of both real and artificial trees.
    Aryn Baker, Time, 22 Dec. 2022
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agnostic

2 of 2 adjective
  • The kids want to use time travel to go back to Earth in the future, but the captain says no, and Eleven is agnostic.
    Amanda Whiting, Vulture, 23 Dec. 2021
  • In the agnostic household of my childhood, that O’Hara line was gospel.
    New York Times, 22 June 2022
  • For example, the study in press used the agnostic approach.
    Nicholette Zeliadt, Scientific American, 19 Apr. 2018
  • Ten Eleven is stage agnostic and global, so the fund can invest past a startup’s seed stage.
    Bylucy Brewster, Fortune, 24 Jan. 2023
  • The best floral dresses are season agnostic, like this spring to fall to winter dress.
    Halie Lesavage, Harper's BAZAAR, 29 Dec. 2022
  • The conflict in Ukraine has upended the idea that products and services are agnostic.
    New York Times, 28 Mar. 2022
  • There’s no world in which that translates to device-agnostic cloud gaming.
    Cecilia D'anastasio, Wired, 29 June 2020
  • The legacy of Latter-day Saint lingo lives on in my agnostic husband.
    The Salt Lake Tribune, 10 Sep. 2023
  • In this more agnostic age, picking up the Bible can be just as startling an act of rebellion in many households.
    Guy Lodge, chicagotribune.com, 27 Apr. 2017
  • How else to explain the agnostic stand of companies like Twitter?
    Jacob Silverman, New Republic, 17 Aug. 2017
  • The reality is that Shopify long ago ceased to be just an agnostic builder of e-commerce websites.
    New York Times, 17 Nov. 2020
  • Pitbull is agnostic about genre — almost any sound or style can be put in service of his buoyant creations.
    Jon Caramanica, New York Times, 15 Mar. 2017
  • This is an agnostic solution that doesn’t attempt to judge the quality of each model.
    Scott K. Johnson, Ars Technica, 17 Nov. 2020
  • What if Hurst and Mayfield really turn out better than, say, Darnold and Chubb in a scheme agnostic assessment?
    Conor Orr, SI.com, 18 Apr. 2018
  • These traders appear to follow an agnostic long/short trading approach, lasting one to two weeks.
    Javier Paz, Forbes, 7 Dec. 2021
  • But the first six months of the year also saw a resurgence of the network comedy’s relevance, as well as a channel-agnostic TV event likely to be discussed for years to come.
    Inkoo Kang, Washington Post, 1 July 2022
  • Pro tracker is hardware-agnostic and loud and—most importantly—has a long range.
    Hunter Fenollol, Popular Mechanics, 25 Aug. 2021
  • Pruitt’s race-agnostic approach to clientele, posing Black and white sitters in the same wicker peacock chair and under the same lights, was fairly unheard of for the time, says Hudson.
    Janine Latus, Smithsonian Magazine, 28 Feb. 2022
  • This certainly flies in the face of the old programmatic model, which was in many cases agnostic toward the source of an audience.
    Richard Marques, Forbes, 1 Mar. 2021
  • But as with any hardware product from a company that has some services skin in the game, the Fire TV Cube is not a perfectly agnostic streaming platform.
    Lauren Goode, WIRED, 7 June 2018
  • Jonathan Gitlin This pick will probably upset some purists out there, those who have no truck with a car built on a platform designed to be powertrain agnostic.
    Jonathan M. Gitlin, Ars Technica, 29 Dec. 2023
  • The viewers as of this moment are mostly Christian, although over half of our cast and crew are agnostic or not of a particular faith background.
    The Salt Lake Tribune, 19 Nov. 2021
  • Obfuscation along with fuzzy thinking seems to be agnostic to age.
    Neil Senturia, San Diego Union-Tribune, 19 Aug. 2020
  • The rise of Neutral Host platforms—neutral and agnostic to providers from connectivity to cloud.
    Dr. Ganesh Sundaram, Forbes, 1 Aug. 2022
  • Josh Rawitch, the president of the Hall of Fame, said his organization's role is to stay as agnostic as possible.
    David Brandt, ajc, 29 Sep. 2022
  • While the previous models were agnostic about the geometry of the quantum system under study, Lewis’ work wasn’t.
    Quanta Magazine, 14 Sep. 2023
  • This omnivorous approach is more norm than outlier these days, and Jockstrap feel like part of a vanguard of genre-agnostic pop.
    Jon Blistein, Rolling Stone, 17 Aug. 2022
  • This process of signaling agreement is agnostic about whether it is used to spread science or viral deception (VD).
    Kathleen Hall Jamieson, Scientific American, 18 Mar. 2021
  • Regulators should be agnostic about the permit price in a trading system, since the point is to set a target level of emissions and then let the market price that quantity.
    The Editorial Board, WSJ, 11 Sep. 2022
  • Some are patient, others less so, others still are agnostic on time, and focus on the valuation of a company when compared with its prospects, whether in the short, medium, or long term.
    Andrew Stuttaford, National Review, 7 Jan. 2024

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