secularist
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There are no political, religious or secularist orthodoxies or litmus tests.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 30, 2025
Step by step, he’s brought us to a very consequential and, speaking as a secularist, a very troubling point.
From Slate ● Sep. 24, 2024
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
Backed by an opposition alliance, Imamoglu has succeeded in appealing to more conservative voters beyond the CHP’s secularist grassroots.
From Reuters ● Mar. 6, 2023
Mine are secularist circulars, and yours, I suppose, are the other kind of thing, but you see the same pillar eats them up quite contentedly.
From We Two, a novel by Edna Lyall
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
Ekrem Imamoglu won in 2019 backed by a six-party coalition of nationalists, secularists, liberals, conservatives, Islamists and, most crucially, the Kurds.
From BBC ● Mar. 27, 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
To build his support, Mr. Kilicdaroglu pulled together six parties that include right-wing nationalists, staunch secularists and Islamists, a feat in itself.
From New York Times ● May 15, 2023
One certainly it has not yet done, for secularists are buried just as believers are, usually with the same rites.
From The Hearts of Men by H. (Harold) Fielding
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