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as in atheistic
lacking religious emotions, principles, or practices
grew up in a nonreligious family
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as in secular
not involving religion or religious matters
a display of nonreligious holiday decorations on municipally owned property
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Recent Examples of nonreligious
The move prompted a coalition of parents — Jewish, Christian, Unitarian Universalist and nonreligious — to sue the state in federal court.
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Erik Ortiz, NBC News, 12 Nov. 2024
About twice as many nonreligious voters as religious voters rate it the most important issue.
—Craig Gilbert, Journal Sentinel, 4 Oct. 2024
But the move prompted a coalition of parents — Jewish, Christian, Unitarian Universalist and nonreligious — to sue the state days later in federal court.
—Erik Ortiz, NBC News, 6 Aug. 2024
By the 1870s, Independence Day had become the most important nonreligious holiday for many Americans, and on June 28, 1870, Congress passed a law making Independence Day a federal holiday.
—N'dea Yancey-Bragg, USA TODAY, 3 July 2024
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Erik Ortiz, NBC News, 12 Nov. 2024
About twice as many nonreligious voters as religious voters rate it the most important issue.
—Craig Gilbert, Journal Sentinel, 4 Oct. 2024
But the move prompted a coalition of parents — Jewish, Christian, Unitarian Universalist and nonreligious — to sue the state days later in federal court.
—Erik Ortiz, NBC News, 6 Aug. 2024
By the 1870s, Independence Day had become the most important nonreligious holiday for many Americans, and on June 28, 1870, Congress passed a law making Independence Day a federal holiday.
—N'dea Yancey-Bragg, USA TODAY, 3 July 2024
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Because at roughly the same time, Christmas was also changing and becoming virtually two holidays: a spiritual holy day that focused on the Good News of the birth of Jesus Christ, and a secular commercial phenomenon that had little to do with Christianity at all.Gord Magill, Newsweek, 20 Dec. 2024
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Against these secular themes, Lee believes that small- and mid-cap stocks are best positioned as potential beneficiaries.Lisa Kailai Han, CNBC, 19 Dec. 2024
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In fact, the natural tendency for systems to move from low-entropy states to high-entropy ones seems to be the only thing that reliably imbues the universe with a consistent temporal direction.Zack Savitsky, Quanta Magazine, 13 Dec. 2024
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To indicate aging, the number needs to be followed by the temporal unit (5 years or 12 months), otherwise the number is just the name of the product.Alissa Fitzgerald, Forbes, 27 Nov. 2024
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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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Clearly the most godless Man of God Garfield has played — the one-two of playing a televangelist here and a Mormon cop in Under the Banner of Heaven makes for a religious diptych that’s uniquely American. tick, tick … BOOM!Rory Doherty, Vulture, 22 Oct. 2024
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His notoriously pornographic breakthrough novel, The Elementary Particles, trafficked in masturbation, flashing, orgies, and child rape but really amounted to a diatribe against a godless materialism.Judith Shulevitz, The Atlantic, 24 Oct. 2024
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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
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Defense attorneys for Allen have argued authorities arrested the wrong person and claimed that Odinism, a pagan Norse religion that has been linked to White supremacist groups, could be a theory connected to the killings, court documents show.Nicole Chavez, CNN, 18 Oct. 2024
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“Nonreligious.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/nonreligious. Accessed 30 Dec. 2024.
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