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
A former civil servant, Kilicdaroglu entered parliament in 2002 with the CHP, which was established by modern Turkey's founder Mustafa Kemal Ataturk and has struggled to reach beyond its secularist grassroots towards conservatives.
From Reuters ● May 9, 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
The grief, the disapproval, the contemptuous pity of her secularist friends had taxed her strength to the utmost, but she had stood firm, and had indeed been living on the heights.
From We Two, a novel by Edna Lyall
Back then, many groups of Iranians opposed to the shah — communists, secularists, Islamists — got behind Ayatollah Khomeini’s revolution.
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
"I'm afraid," said Neville, "that Gerda and Kay are secularists at present."
From Dangerous Ages by Dame Rose Macaulay
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