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Recent Examples of nonreligious Some nonreligious customs of celebration include eating certain treats, giving children gifts of chocolate coins and playing with a dreidel. Chris Sims, The Indianapolis Star, 13 Dec. 2024 According to the lawsuit, the TDCJ had previously allowed employees to wear head coverings for both religious and nonreligious purposes — including baseball caps. Serena Lin, Austin American-Statesman, 3 May 2024 The parallel state is widening its social base beyond Islamists to nonreligious nationalists, in an attempt to co-opt the growing influence of those who despise the official and selective imposition of Islamic law. Mohammad Ayatollahi Tabaar, Foreign Affairs, 5 Aug. 2021 The move prompted a coalition of parents — Jewish, Christian, Unitarian Universalist and nonreligious — to sue the state in federal court. Erik Ortiz, NBC News, 12 Nov. 2024 See all Example Sentences for nonreligious 
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Adjective
  • The company is set to benefit from strong secular demand trends and superior earnings visibility, the investment bank said in a Jan. 2 research note.
    Amala Balakrishner, CNBC, 7 Jan. 2025
  • Society Who Gets to be An Atheist? andrea bennett, Kim Fu Some non-believers are working to combat white male dominance within the movement and make room for everyone to explore secular community.
    hazlitt.net, hazlitt.net, 4 Jan. 2025
Adjective
  • And though Chen maneuvers every temporal and geographical shift, efforts to convey the political context of each new era can outweigh character development, undercutting the emotional breadth this story carries.
    Kayla Maiuri, New York Times, 3 Jan. 2025
  • For leaders, introducing intentional financial, temporal, or otherwise constraints can reignite creativity and urgency within stagnant teams.
    Julian Hayes II, Forbes, 28 Dec. 2024
Adjective
  • Finishing off the top 5 is religious flick The Forge with an irreligious weekend take-home of $6.6.
    Bethy Squires, Vulture, 25 Aug. 2024
  • 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
  • Clearly the most godless Man of God Garfield has played — the one-two of playing a televangelist here and a Mormon cop in Under the Banner of Heaven makes for a religious diptych that’s uniquely American. tick, tick … BOOM!
    Rory Doherty, Vulture, 22 Oct. 2024
  • His notoriously pornographic breakthrough novel, The Elementary Particles, trafficked in masturbation, flashing, orgies, and child rape but really amounted to a diatribe against a godless materialism.
    Judith Shulevitz, The Atlantic, 24 Oct. 2024
Adjective
  • 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
  • Defense attorneys for Allen have argued authorities arrested the wrong person and claimed that Odinism, a pagan Norse religion that has been linked to White supremacist groups, could be a theory connected to the killings, court documents show.
    Nicole Chavez, CNN, 18 Oct. 2024

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“Nonreligious.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/nonreligious. Accessed 22 Jan. 2025.

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