secularist
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There are no political, religious or secularist orthodoxies or litmus tests.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 30, 2025
However, media reports claimed the dispute was centered around players wearing jerseys featuring Turkey’s secularist founding father, Mustafa Kemal Ataturk, and carrying a banner with his motto, “Peace at home, Peace in the world.”
From Seattle Times ● Dec. 31, 2023
Fervent supporters saw it as just reward for a leader who put Islamic teachings back at the core of public life in a country with a strong secularist tradition, and championed the pious working classes.
From Reuters ● May 14, 2023
While most pop songs are secular by default – in that they are about the things of this world, making no mention of the divine or spiritual – "Imagine" is explicitly secularist.
From Salon ● Sep. 25, 2021
But this old secularist tag, that it is selfish to save one's soul, remains with him long after he has practically glorified selfishness.
From George Bernard Shaw by Chesterton, G. K. (Gilbert Keith)
The new government in Tehran talked the talk about respecting minority rights and even included secularists in government for a time.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 13, 2024
“Bible scholars and secularists both have wondered why the final world conflict would take place in a country no bigger than the size of New Jersey,” Mr. Jeffress said in a telephone interview.
From Washington Times ● Oct. 26, 2023
Northern Ireland secularists recently won the right to state recognition of nonreligious wedding ceremonies led by humanist celebrants.
From Seattle Times ● Apr. 3, 2023
The coalition, known officially as the Nation Alliance and unofficially as the Table of Six, includes six parties that range from right-wing nationalists to political Islamists to staunch secularists.
From New York Times ● Mar. 6, 2023
Men whose terror of such punishment as this, and whose vivid faith in the imminence thereof, were strong enough to kill them were much more, or less, than secularists.
From The Long White Cloud by Reeves, William Pember
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