as in temporal
not involving religion or religious matters
that's an issue for the secular authorities, not the church
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Recent Examples of secular
Grace Gilson, Sun Sentinel, 31 Mar. 2025
If the businesses are sold at a good price, DuPont can take the cash proceeds and buy businesses in secular growing industries like water and health care.
—Jeff Marks, CNBC, 31 Mar. 2025
Isaac Chotiner, The New Yorker, 10 Mar. 2023
These data imply to me that the secular are getting idiocratic faster than the fundamentalists.
—Razib Khan, Discover Magazine, 16 Aug. 2012
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Adjective
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
If the businesses are sold at a good price, DuPont can take the cash proceeds and buy businesses in secular growing industries like water and health care.
—Jeff Marks, CNBC, 31 Mar. 2025
Noun
There was a change of heart among the secular nationalists during the second intifada—which started in 2000 and ended in 2005—in which seculars also joined forces.
—Isaac Chotiner, The New Yorker, 10 Mar. 2023
These data imply to me that the secular are getting idiocratic faster than the fundamentalists.
—Razib Khan, Discover Magazine, 16 Aug. 2012
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for secular
Adjective
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There is a limit, which could be discussed as a temporal one.—
News Desk,
Artforum,
10 Apr. 2025
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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
Noun
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Ludacris praises Miller for his affable personality and his ability to explain things in layman’s terms.—
Todd Longwell,
Variety,
9 Apr. 2025
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In layman’s terms, this means that DEB uses plant sugars and natural enzymes to create biobased materials (such as biopolymers) in eco-friendly conditions.—
Alexandra Harrell,
Sourcing Journal,
3 Apr. 2025
Adjective
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Our respondents included Christian, Jewish, Muslim and nonreligious individuals.—
Denise Daniels,
The Conversation,
10 Apr. 2025
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Others are young professionals, retired teachers, Republicans and Democrats, and religious and nonreligious people who are experienced in cross-cultural communication and jumping in for the first time.—
Carissa Zaffiro,
Chicago Tribune,
14 Jan. 2025
Noun
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The layperson tends to assume that a precise and fully calculable means exists to produce a mental health diagnosis to an ironclad nth degree.—
Lance Eliot,
Forbes.com,
17 Apr. 2025
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To the layperson, this wall would appear essentially blank and completely devoid of hand or footholds.—
Owen Clarke,
Outside Online,
11 Apr. 2025
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“Secular.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/secular. Accessed 23 Apr. 2025.
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