How to Use agnosticism in a Sentence

agnosticism

noun
  • In reality, many people think of agnosticism as a less stringent form of atheism.
    Harmeet Kaur, CNN, 10 Mar. 2024
  • But the shift towards a subscription model and the platform agnosticism in mobile feels increasingly inevitable.
    Simon Hill, WIRED, 24 Mar. 2024
  • Freud's health is failing, Europe is on the brink of war, and Lewis has come to challenge Freud on his agnosticism.
    USA TODAY, 18 Jan. 2024
  • The country has seen a gradual rise in agnosticism in recent years.
    Reuters, CNN, 11 Dec. 2020
  • But George Eliot was intensely sincere in both her agnosticism and her moralism.
    James Wood, The New Yorker, 4 Sep. 2023
  • Her music mixes those art-school underpinnings with the genre agnosticism common to her cohort.
    Washington Post, 31 Mar. 2022
  • Wendy Tan White: One of the things that’s really important to make robotics accessible is agnosticism.
    IEEE Spectrum, 15 May 2023
  • The distinction seems unimportant: to use a term that Eisenman recently used when talking about herself, the painting’s quiet default is gender agnosticism.
    Ian Parker, The New Yorker, 22 Feb. 2021
  • Still, the show’s diverse and good-humored portrayals should never be mistaken for agnosticism; its progressive politics were always clear.
    Kovie Biakolo, Vulture, 24 Mar. 2021
  • As success is found in each of these areas and software continues to evolve into architectural agnosticism, Arm and its partners should find opportunity in the more traditional markets, where x86 has a stronghold.
    Matt Kimball, Forbes, 28 Apr. 2021
  • Hardy was scrupulously present in church, despite his agnosticism; George Sand was careful to stop her son marrying a girl who was illegitimate, despite her own determination to be free from convention.
    Tim Parks, The New York Review of Books, 10 July 2020
  • Satanists should actively work to hone critical thinking and exercise reasonable agnosticism in all things.
    Mike Snider, USA TODAY, 30 Oct. 2021
  • Too often this inability to infer specific large scale cultural constructs because of the limitations of method slides into agnosticism or skepticism of the existence of such constructs at all!
    Razib Khan, Discover Magazine, 26 July 2011
  • Some people confuse agnosticism (not knowing) with apathy (not caring).
    John Horgan, Scientific American, 14 Aug. 2021
  • Asian religious traditions have long had a strand which accepts both immortality of consciousness as well as agnosticism or atheism in relation to supernatural agents, gods.
    Razib Khan, Discover Magazine, 13 Sep. 2010
  • Our humanism is a Euro-American ideology, and its keynotes are progress, liberal individualism, agnosticism or atheism, and trusting the science.
    Dominic Green, WSJ, 24 Mar. 2023
  • No one could deny her extraordinary singing, but secularists resisted its divine source, crediting DeMent’s agnosticism.
    Armond White, National Review, 28 Apr. 2023

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