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Noun
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Indeed, this sort of agnosticism does give China an advantage.—
Oriana Skylar Mastro,
Foreign Affairs,
11 Dec. 2018 -
The difference is that in poker the agnosticism over individual decisions all serves a larger plan.—
Jay Caspian Kang,
The New Yorker,
11 Oct. 2024
Noun
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Look, $100 million on initiatives like expanding atheism in Nepal.—
Linda Qiu,
New York Times,
8 Feb. 2025
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Among his biggest criticisms is the discovery that a $500,000 grant to a humanist group may have been misused to promote atheism in Nepal and Asia while it was intended to promote religious freedom.—
Emily Brooks,
The Hill,
12 Dec. 2024
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His Hindu nationalist party has sought to turn India – a nation constitutionally bound to secularism – into a Hindu rashtra, or homeland for the Hindu majority, critics say, at the expense of the millions who profess minority faiths.—
Aishwarya S Iyer,
CNN,
10 Feb. 2025
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The case generated a media storm, pitting the values of women’s liberation and secularism against murky fears of Islamist terrorism.—
Arundhati Katju,
Foreign Affairs,
23 Dec. 2020
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“Know-nothingism.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/know-nothingism. Accessed 21 Feb. 2025.
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