secularist
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There are no political, religious or secularist orthodoxies or litmus tests.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 30, 2025
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
A six-party opposition coalition known as the Nation Alliance has united behind the candidacy of Kemal Kilicdaroglu, leader of the secularist Republican People’s Party.
From Seattle Times ● Mar. 22, 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 result of her study of the life of Christ was at first to make her a much better secularist.
From We Two, a novel by Edna Lyall
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
Bazzi was born in a Shiite Muslim community in south Lebanon; his parents were secularists who never went to mosque.
From Seattle Times ● Jun. 14, 2023
When she was young, she said, she had faced constant harassment from secularists and couldn’t get a university education because of her religious convictions— until Erdogan came along.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 28, 2023
I can't remember except that I asked him to let us pay for the glass by installments, and tried to assure him that secularists were not in the habit of smashing other people's property.
From We Two, a novel by Edna Lyall
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