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Recent Examples of religiousness
There's a sort of a natural world religiousness or spirituality or philosophy that swells around a lot of things and different characters.
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Rebecca Ford, Vanity Fair, 6 Jan. 2026
Key measures of religiousness have remained remarkably stable since 2020, according to recent Pew Research Center polling.
—Jordan King, MSNBC Newsweek, 9 Dec. 2025
Rebecca Ford, Vanity Fair, 6 Jan. 2026
Key measures of religiousness have remained remarkably stable since 2020, according to recent Pew Research Center polling.
—Jordan King, MSNBC Newsweek, 9 Dec. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for religiousness
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So, when national identity becomes intertwined with politics, religion, race, culture, or geography, criticism of the nation can feel less like a disagreement about policy and more like a challenge to one's identity.—
Maia Niguel Hoskin,
Forbes.com,
18 June 2026
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For those who prefer nonfiction, history is the top choice (the clear favorite among men), while women are more divided between books about religions, philosophy, or spirituality and books about self-help and wellness.—
Fred Backus,
CBS News,
18 June 2026
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If this devoutness doesn’t come easy to him, that’s the point, conveyed with surprising humor and accumulating force.—
Claudia Roth Pierpont,
New Yorker,
24 Nov. 2025
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At the height of her piousness, Adele is confronted with a substitute English teacher, Bromley Stokes, a hippie from San Francisco, who, to her dismay, changes all the rules of school.—
Deborah Treisman,
New Yorker,
1 June 2026
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Christianity is one of the state’s primary means of control, but for the girls who grew up at the Aunt Lydia School, piousness is real.—
Amanda Whiting,
Vulture,
27 May 2026
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While this is considered a trait of piety and beauty in art, it may have been caused by Simonetta’s pituitary tumor.—
Laura Baisas,
Popular Science,
17 June 2026
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Honoring Catalonia’s Christian traditions Earlier Wednesday, Leo celebrated the centuries-old Catalan tradition of popular piety by praying at Montserrat, a mountain complex outside the city that is dear to many Catalans.—
Joseph Wilson,
Los Angeles Times,
10 June 2026
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The butterflies’ devotion to this special longevity diet pays off.—
Katherine J. Wu,
The Atlantic,
16 June 2026
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His devotion to the team has earned him such distinction that in 2024, the NBA announced he would be recognized alongside Billy Crystal, Alan Horwitz and Jack Nicholson as a SuperFan in the Naismith Basketball Hall of Fame.—
Mason Leib,
ABC News,
15 June 2026
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“Religiousness.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/religiousness. Accessed 24 Jun. 2026.
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