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Recent Examples of nonreligious What many of us nonreligious Americans do take issue with are religious displays that are sanctioned or funded by the government, or when one group is given preferential treatment over the rest of us. Benedict Cosgrove, Newsweek, 19 Dec. 2024 Melina Cohen is the communications director for American Atheists, a national nonprofit working to protect civil rights, advance political equality, achieve social inclusion, and empower atheists and other nonreligious people through advocacy, education, and community building. Benedict Cosgrove, Newsweek, 19 Dec. 2024 Some nonreligious customs of celebration include eating certain treats, giving children gifts of chocolate coins and playing with a dreidel. Chris Sims, The Indianapolis Star, 13 Dec. 2024 According to the lawsuit, the TDCJ had previously allowed employees to wear head coverings for both religious and nonreligious purposes — including baseball caps. Serena Lin, Austin American-Statesman, 3 May 2024 See All Example Sentences for nonreligious
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Adjective
  • But Roth argued that allowing groups like Catholic Charities to qualify — where their work is largely identical to secular groups in the state — could incentivize states to cut back on religious accommodations altogether.
    Ella Lee, The Hill, 31 Mar. 2025
  • But Pew also found in a separate survey that more than one in five Israeli Jews had switched between Jewish religious sectors — going from secular to religious Zionist, for example, or traditional to haredi Orthodox.
    Grace Gilson, Sun Sentinel, 31 Mar. 2025
Adjective
  • Bill Murray got emotional talking about his old pal Bruce Willis, who has been battling frontal temporal dementia and aphasia for the past several years.
    Greg Evans, Deadline, 1 Apr. 2025
  • There are several astronomical functions, but the most entertaining one is the temporal tracking of celestial observations.
    Paige Reddinger, Robb Report, 31 Mar. 2025
Adjective
  • 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
  • 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
Adjective
  • The ranks of the godless have stopped growing for now.
    Lauren Jackson, New York Times, 26 Feb. 2025
  • 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
  • Allen's defense team aggressively pushed their theory that Odinists, members of a pagan Norse religion hijacked by white nationalists, killed the girls during a sacrificial ritual in the woods.
    Kristine Phillips, The Indianapolis Star, 13 Nov. 2024
  • There’s a lot of folklore, superstition and myth — pagan elements really, that are folded into how people actually practice religion in Ireland.
    Georg Szalai, The Hollywood Reporter, 3 Sep. 2019

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“Nonreligious.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/nonreligious. Accessed 4 Apr. 2025.

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