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Few people were more agnostically alive than Stoppard, who loved the finer things in life and handsomely earned them with his inexhaustible wit.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 30, 2025

He added that, overall, the panel’s outcome was a “win-win” development and that a hunt for out of the ordinary objects should be based on “seeking new data agnostically with well-calibrated and controlled instruments.”

From Scientific American • Jun. 9, 2023

Families that run the gamut from religiously conservative to agnostically liberal.

From The Verge • Nov. 21, 2018

His postmodern psalm, “Who by Fire,” rehearses the many possible worldly means of death, and parries agnostically, “And who shall I say is calling?”

From Slate • Nov. 11, 2016

"He has been so unusually amiable," agnostically said Justine.

From A Fascinating Traitor An Anglo-Indian Story by Savage, Richard