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Noun
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An app called Krishna, for example, has already advised killing unbelievers and supporting India's ruling party.—
Scott Shapiro,
WIRED,
8 Jan. 2024 -
To have reservations about something that is treated as sacrosanct is to be an unbeliever, or worse, a heretic, and thus someone to be cast out.—
Ian Buruma,
Harper's Magazine,
2 June 2023
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Some, steeped in anti-Semitic conspiracy theories, even viewed Israel as an infidel transgressor.—
Suzanne Maloney,
Foreign Affairs,
10 Dec. 2024
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Some of their treasured possessions—bicycles, snowboards, trophies—would identify them as infidels and put their lives in danger.—
Cheri Lucas Rowlands,
Longreads,
5 Nov. 2024
Noun
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Who is Jonathan Rauch, a gay Jewish atheist, to write a book about how conservative American Christians are failing themselves and democracy?—
Andrew Silow-Carroll,
Sun Sentinel,
26 Feb. 2025
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Austin Ray, an atheist, filed the civil action against the Denver Department of Transportation and Infrastructure in January in federal court.—
Sara Schilling,
Sacramento Bee,
28 Feb. 2025
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Church officials decided to recognize Dec. 25 as his birthday, probably to coincide with the date of pagan festivals in an attempt to get pagans to accept Christianity as the official religion.—
Atlanta Life,
ajc,
10 Nov. 2017
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While plague stalks the land, paranoid peasants swap cautionary folk tales about evil spirits, pagans, Jews and other outsiders.—
Stephen Dalton,
The Hollywood Reporter,
9 Oct. 2017
Noun
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The streets of Vatican City are both energized and oppressed with grief as faithful Catholics and nonbelievers consider the life and death, possibly soon, of Christ’s representative on earth.—
Timothy Nerozzi,
Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government,
28 Feb. 2025
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There are only two kinds of people in the world: the believer and the nonbeliever.—
Victoria Uwumarogie,
Essence,
23 Dec. 2024
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“Giaour.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/giaour. Accessed 19 Mar. 2025.
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