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 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
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
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
Unless this book, with its scathing analysis of the dangers and difficulties of the secularist State, were not only a book, but an event, of what use would it be to him?
From Eleanor by Ward, Humphry, Mrs.
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
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
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 Lyall, Edna
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