How to Use secularize in a Sentence

secularize

verb
Definition of secularizenext
Synonyms for secularizenext
  • The government secularized the hospital.
  • In the 1920s, the Mexican government’s attempt to secularize the country sparks a rebellion known as the Cristero War.
    — Los Angeles Times, 26 Mar. 2021
  • As Europe has secularized, Poland has remained a deeply Catholic country.
    — James Traub, New York Times, 2 Nov. 2016
  • The sweeping 1930s reforms of Ataturk secularized the building and brought museum status; today partially cleaned mosaics peek out from the plaster with glints of gold along the high upper gallery.
    — National Geographic, 22 Mar. 2019
  • The conservative fixation on evil, with sin as the subtext, is a symptom not only of religious hypocrisy but also of more secularized corruption.
    — Sarah Jones, New Republic, 9 Oct. 2017
  • Sutton might have pursued this larger, secularized picture of many recruits more fully.
    — David A. Hollinger, Washington Post, 24 Oct. 2019
  • At one point, Alito argued that a religious symbol like the Latin cross—a symbol indisputably linked to Christianity and its fundamental beliefs—can be secularized.
    — Matt Ford, The New Republic, 21 June 2019
  • The building was secularized during the French Revolution and designated as a burial space for exceptional French citizens.
    — Brigit Katz, Smithsonian, 6 July 2017
  • The building was secularized during the French Revolution and designated as a burial space for exceptional French citizens.
    — Brigit Katz, Smithsonian, 5 July 2017
  • Congregational demise is troubling, but underreported data suggest that fear of a secularizing America may be overwrought.
    — Ericka Andersen, WSJ, 20 Feb. 2020
  • And as those experiments intensified and secularized in succeeding centuries, the death toll expanded exponentially.
    — George Weigel, National Review, 20 Dec. 2017
  • Albania was the first country to legally secularize, in 1912—while focusing lovingly, melancholically, on the human experience of totalitarianism.
    — Josephine Livingstone, New Republic, 10 Jan. 2018

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