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Adjective
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Being agnostic to the provider itself and solely focusing on the value the solution brings to a business can also help the AI thrive.—
Lori Schafer,
Forbes,
19 Mar. 2025 -
The bill itself is agnostic about where or how to build specific infrastructure.—
Lori Ann LaRocco,
CNBC,
11 Mar. 2025
Adjective
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An adult secular choir has become massively popular thanks to its policy of no shaming and letting in everyone who wants to join.—
Jessie Schiewe,
Los Angeles Times,
20 Mar. 2025
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There are many young secular Jews who have been uncomfortable with Israel’s actions.—
Steven Zeitchik,
The Hollywood Reporter,
19 Mar. 2025
Adjective
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The ranks of the godless have stopped growing for now.—
Lauren Jackson,
New York Times,
26 Feb. 2025
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Compared with the heavenly bliss promised at the end of Revelation, Byron’s godless planet was bleak stuff indeed.—
Jennifer Szalai,
New York Times,
22 Jan. 2025
Adjective
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Finishing off the top 5 is religious flick The Forge with an irreligious weekend take-home of $6.6.—
Bethy Squires,
Vulture,
25 Aug. 2024
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From its earliest days in the nineteenth century and until the Holocaust, the Orthodox rabbinate in eastern Europe was not enthusiastic about the Zionist movement, which at the time was led by irreligious Jews.—
Elliott Abrams,
Foreign Affairs,
1 July 2011
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Suggestions of changing head coach would now be borderline blasphemous for many Newcastle supporters, despite significant social-media murmurings before the nine-game winning run from mid-December.—
Chris Waugh,
The Athletic,
18 Mar. 2025
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Rushdie has received death threats ever since 1989, starting with the publication of his novel The Satanic Verses, which was declared by some as blasphemous.—
KC Baker,
People.com,
21 Feb. 2025
Adjective
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This game must have seemed profane to the Greeks, or even impious.—
Simone Weil,
Harper's Magazine,
2 July 2024
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Both narratives, private and public, differently restrict our access, so the ideal historian will need great tact and an impious curiosity.—
James Wood,
The New Yorker,
4 Sep. 2023
Adjective
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At that time, writers like Ashbery and Frank O’Hara were helping to establish a new idiom in American poetry, something serious without self-seriousness: the new poetry was open to the city’s rhythms, irreverent but tender—and clearly, if not openly, gay.—
David S. Wallace,
The New Yorker,
19 Mar. 2025
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Grok, named after the term coined by sci-fi author Robert A. Heinlein and modeled after the irreverent tone of The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, is designed to be a companion, a guide — and, apparently, quite a bit of a troublemaker.—
Anisha Sircar,
Forbes,
19 Mar. 2025
Adjective
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They’d been hidden there for 1,600 years because they were banned as heretical by the bishops of the Roman Catholic Church in the fourth century, although they’d been widely read before that.—
Sophie Hills,
Christian Science Monitor,
28 Mar. 2025
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Of course, this being the Warhammer 40k universe, players might be just as likely to make secret alliances with these heretical creatures and pick up one of the archetypes in these books with their Game Master’s permission.—
Rob Wieland,
Forbes,
10 Mar. 2025
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“Atheistic.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/atheistic. Accessed 2 Apr. 2025.
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