How to Use secularism in a Sentence

secularism

noun

• That's a 16-point jump in sort of secularism in the last 20 years.
  — NBC News, 25 Mar. 2018
• That may be in part because France is proud of its commitment to secularism.
  — Karla Adam, Washington Post, 4 Mar. 2024
• In the years that followed, the notion of secularism became more abstract.
  — Manveena Suri, CNN, 19 Nov. 2019
• Ince's rally in the coastal city of Izmir, a bastion of secularism, drew hundreds of thousands Thursday.
  — Elena Becatoros and Zeynep Bilginsoy, Fox News, 22 June 2018
• Steinberg did not seem to think, or want to think, that Epstein’s appointment had much to do with secularism or with a decline in faith.
  — Nick Paumgarte, The New Yorker, 11 Sep. 2021
• Once the clerical party of the monarchy, the right in France stood as a staunch defender of the Church and opposed the secularism of the French Revolution.
  — Annabelle Timsit, The Atlantic, 16 Sep. 2017
• To inflame things further, Le Pen and others on the right have weaponized the sacred French concept of secularism against Muslims.
  — Ishaan Tharoor, Washington Post, 23 Oct. 2017
• The episode is the latest row over Muslim women’s face- and body-coverings in a country with strict laws on secularism.
  — Claire Zillman, Fortune, 28 June 2019
• This was part of the backwash from the rising secularism of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
  — Joan Acocella, The New Yorker, 15 Mar. 2021
• So conservative religion is up and secularism is up, and there’s not a whole lot left in the middle.
  — The Salt Lake Tribune, 9 Mar. 2022
• The stale Nehruvian mix of secularism and socialism has lost its mass appeal.
  — Walter Russell Mead, WSJ, 10 Aug. 2020
• There’s a certain Nixon-goes-to-China element to Sadr’s turn to secularism.
  — Thanassis Cambanis, BostonGlobe.com, 26 May 2018
• And as India’s economy grew in the 2000s, secularism came to be perceived as another failure of the left.
  — New York Times, 1 Dec. 2020
• In Alito’s eyes, the answer is a growing tide of secularism.
  — Matt Ford, The New Republic, 2 Aug. 2022
• In many parts of the world, secularism is on the rise, even in the United States where there has been a slow but steady drop in the number of people who affiliate themselves with a religion.
  — Jason Daley, Smithsonian, 9 Aug. 2017
• In many parts of the world, secularism is on the rise, even in the United States where there has been a slow but steady drop in the number of people who affiliate themselves with a religion.
  — Jason Daley, Smithsonian, 9 Aug. 2017
• According to a Google Books synopsis, Judge argues in the book that the problem with Catholic schools is that there’s not enough religion and too much secularism.
  — Emily Bloch, Teen Vogue, 2 Oct. 2018
• So the fact that that’s shocking shows the degree to which secularism has become a shroud over academic societies.
  — Tyler Kingkade, NBC News, 23 Aug. 2023
• Attal cited the core French principle of secularism in the public space.
  — Annabelle Timsit, Washington Post, 9 Jan. 2024
• The Congress Party has been weak in its commitment to secularism.
  — Isaac Chotiner, The New Yorker, 18 Dec. 2019
• Bercot rectifies the ways that modern secularism copes with grief.
  — Armond White, National Review, 2 Nov. 2022
• But, in the US, secularism and de-Christianization are gaining ground.
  — Jacob Carozza, BostonGlobe.com, 11 Apr. 2018
• On the other hand, European-style secularism is unlikely to take hold any time soon.
  — Samuel Goldman, The Week, 23 Mar. 2022
• In the West, there is a long-running debate as to whether Shariah can coexist with secularism and democracy.
  — NBC News, 19 Apr. 2018
• Despite their secularism, his parents agreed to allow their son to be confirmed.
  — Emily Langer, Washington Post, 13 June 2024
• He was widely seen as the church’s strongest possible weapon against the pressures of secularism and relativism.
  — Jacqueline L. Salmon, Washington Post, 31 Dec. 2022
• By the postwar surge in religious observance, the main action before organized secularism was in the courts—and here a still greater irony was poised to overtake the movement.
  — Chris Lehmann, The New Republic, 3 Nov. 2021
• The movement had prided itself on its resolute secularism, but longtermist dread recalled the verse in the Book of Revelation that warns of a time when the stars will fall from the sky like unripe figs.
  — Gideon Lewis-Kraus, The New Yorker, 8 Aug. 2022
• Some Turks treasure that secularism as a founding pillar of the republic.
  — Elif Ince, New York Times, 30 May 2023
• Overall, however, the shift toward greater secularism has gone hand in hand with major changes in values that have left many conservatives, especially the white evangelicals who make up the core of today’s GOP, feeling isolated.
  — David Lauter, Los Angeles Times, 22 June 2024

Last Updated: 2 Oct 2024