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Adjective
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Finishing off the top 5 is religious flick The Forge with an irreligious weekend take-home of $6.6.—
Bethy Squires,
Vulture,
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From its earliest days in the nineteenth century and until the Holocaust, the Orthodox rabbinate in eastern Europe was not enthusiastic about the Zionist movement, which at the time was led by irreligious Jews.—
Elliott Abrams,
Foreign Affairs,
1 July 2011
Adjective
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The rock opera is a secular take on the final days of Jesus, and is written as a somewhat provocative, subversive story, but does not outright mock the teachings of Christianity.—
Dani Di Placido,
Forbes,
22 Feb. 2025
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In the film, Seeger is portrayed as a secular saint — serene and good humored, the troubadour as social justice warrior.—
Thomas Doherty,
The Hollywood Reporter,
19 Feb. 2025
Adjective
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By Jeffrey Kluger January 27, 2025 3:53 PM EST Since COVID-19 first took off, political leaders, infectious disease specialists, and the lay public have debated its origins.—
Jeffrey Kluger,
TIME,
27 Jan. 2025
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In the December e-mail chain among Riverside’s lay leadership, the city’s public preschool programs again came up as a rationale for shutting down Weekday.—
Jessica Winter,
The New Yorker,
18 Jan. 2025
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Allen's defense team aggressively pushed their theory that Odinists, members of a pagan Norse religion hijacked by white nationalists, killed the girls during a sacrificial ritual in the woods.—
Kristine Phillips,
The Indianapolis Star,
13 Nov. 2024
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There’s a lot of folklore, superstition and myth — pagan elements really, that are folded into how people actually practice religion in Ireland.—
Georg Szalai,
The Hollywood Reporter,
3 Sep. 2019
Adjective
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Compared with the heavenly bliss promised at the end of Revelation, Byron’s godless planet was bleak stuff indeed.—
Jennifer Szalai,
New York Times,
22 Jan. 2025
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The personal abjection in McGahern’s novels is best understood as an allegory of social despair, which is in turn allegorical of a godless existence.—
Sam Sacks,
Harper's Magazine,
2 Jan. 2025
Adjective
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Bowman, a registered Republican, has previously served as the pastor of The River Church, a nondenominational Christian church, for four years and is also the co-owner of the coffee shop Kings Arms Coffee, located in the West End neighborhood of Cincinnati, according to the Cincinnati Enquirer.—
Asher Notheis,
Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government,
8 Feb. 2025
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In 2010, the number of nondenominational churches was roughly 35,000, according to the institute.—
Rose Evans,
Idaho Statesman,
27 Jan. 2025
Adjective
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For decades in California, those dollars have only been permitted to go to schools that are nonsectarian.—
Hannah Fry,
Los Angeles Times,
30 Oct. 2024
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By the 1970s, however, Christian private schools outnumbered the nonsectarian ones, which inspired political activism among Christian evangelists who had shown little political interest previously.—
Michael Hiltzik,
Los Angeles Times,
23 Oct. 2024
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By effectively transferring knowledge from freely available visual and language data, Magma bridges verbal, spatial, and temporal intelligence to navigate complex tasks and settings.—
Ars Technica,
Ars Technica,
20 Feb. 2025
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His work as a filmmaker includes Animal Room with Neil Patrick Harris, Perkins 14, Dark Ride, A Good Night to Die which premiered at the 2003 Tribeca Film Festival and the 2021 temporal horror film 6:45.—
Greg Evans,
Deadline,
16 Jan. 2025
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“Laical.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/laical. Accessed 3 Mar. 2025.
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