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“The perception for a long time was that defense was either in secular decline or was secularly flat,” Mr. Kreitz says.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 12, 2026

This was how I grew up experiencing my faith, though otherwise I had been brought up fairly secularly.

From Time • Jun. 8, 2015

But I do think that the state of your soul, whether expressed religiously or secularly, is the primary concern in life.

From Washington Post • May 1, 2015

That’s also how he’s able to moralize from a great height, secularly or not, while seeming like your friend.

From New York Times • Sep. 5, 2011

Michael derived support from the general belief, and resolved most secularly to take a full advantage of it.

From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 54, No. 337, November, 1843 by Various