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Adjective
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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 -
There’s a lot of folklore, superstition and myth — pagan elements really, that are folded into how people actually practice religion in Ireland.—
Georg Szalai,
The Hollywood Reporter,
3 Sep. 2019
Adjective
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Compared with the heavenly bliss promised at the end of Revelation, Byron’s godless planet was bleak stuff indeed.—
Jennifer Szalai,
New York Times,
22 Jan. 2025
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The personal abjection in McGahern’s novels is best understood as an allegory of social despair, which is in turn allegorical of a godless existence.—
Sam Sacks,
Harper's Magazine,
2 Jan. 2025
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In 2006, Hamas wrested control of Gaza from Fatah, the secular party of the Palestinian Authority.—
Claudine Ebeid,
The Atlantic,
6 Feb. 2025
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Many even moved between Islamist and secular armed groups.—
NAFEES HAMID,
Foreign Affairs,
31 Jan. 2025
Adjective
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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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In the December e-mail chain among Riverside’s lay leadership, the city’s public preschool programs again came up as a rationale for shutting down Weekday.—
Jessica Winter,
The New Yorker,
18 Jan. 2025
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But, as tuition climbed (partly to cover the salaries of lay teachers who replaced nuns), the student body skewed wealthier.—
Alec MacGillis,
ProPublica,
13 Jan. 2025
Adjective
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Great vacations exist in a temporal netherworld, unmoored from the reality of daily life.—
Sofia Perez,
Travel + Leisure,
30 Jan. 2025
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The Apocalypse was a way out, a temporal doorway to God and Heaven.—
Arthur Krystal,
The New Yorker,
27 Jan. 2025
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Whereas The Prince of Egypt was a sweeping, lavishly animated epic that could elicit a spiritual response from even nonreligious viewers with its grandeur, Joseph feels very much like Sunday school bonus content.—
James Grebey,
Vulture,
31 Jan. 2025
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But nonreligious ideologies generally yield less durable relationships.—
Christopher Blair,
Foreign Affairs,
5 Oct. 2020
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“Paganish.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/paganish. Accessed 22 Feb. 2025.
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