nonchurch

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Adjective
  • In other words, despite its seeming departure from Maine’s binary logic, the Second World was really a slice of the non-West that, contrary to expectations, embraced an explicitly secular and modernizing agenda: socialism.
    Zachariah Mampilly, Foreign Affairs, 1 Apr. 2025
  • But the church’s decision to make Catholic Charities a separate corporate entity means that this entity is not exempt from the state’s unemployment law — because Catholic Charities itself only provides secular services.
    Ian Millhiser, Vox, 31 Mar. 2025
Adjective
  • Professional societies, meetings, the lay press and websites are all valuable sources of information.
    Newsweek Staff, MSNBC Newsweek, 4 Apr. 2025
  • Being in the highest tertile (one third for the lay person) of cardio health, Bhatt said, will add close to a decade to your life.
    John Werner, Forbes, 14 Mar. 2025
Adjective
  • There is a limit, which could be discussed as a temporal one.
    News Desk, Artforum, 10 Apr. 2025
  • When the master of timing departed our temporal world for a large and silent india-ink panel nine days shy of his 96th birthday, the cartoonist left behind an enormous body of work that still dances on the page.
    Art Spiegelman, The Atlantic, 9 Apr. 2025
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“Nonchurch.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/nonchurch. Accessed 23 Apr. 2025.

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