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This was followed by a period of top-down secularizing reforms under the military officer-turned-king Reza Shah, who banned the wearing of the veil in public in the 1930s.

From Seattle Times • Sep. 27, 2022

The picture that emerges is of a country that is rapidly secularizing but at the same time seeing a strong backlash to that process.

From Washington Post • May 5, 2022

“I wouldn’t say he had an interest in secularizing it,” Duncan said.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 28, 2022

“The secularizing shifts evident in American society so far in the 21st-century show no signs of slowing,” wrote Gregory A. Smith, Pew’s associate director of research.

From Washington Times • Dec. 14, 2021

Md Advocate of responsible government, 17; his death, 17; secures passage, by Assembly, of Act secularizing Clergy Reserves, 1840, but on being sent to England, it is disallowed on technical grounds, 59-60.

From The Makers of Canada: Index and Dictionary of Canadian History by Various