How to Use agnostic in a Sentence

agnostic

1 of 2 noun
  • In flying, most people are brand agnostic, so long as the price is right.
    — Ryan Craggs, CNT, 7 Aug. 2017
  • What this means is people who are openly atheists and agnostics can't be scouts.
    — Lizzy Acker, OregonLive.com, 11 Oct. 2017
  • The trick to achieving a fluid wardrobe is to think of your core pieces as situation-agnostic.
    — The Cut, 23 Feb. 2018
  • Many of the algorithms researchers need to test in path planning are sensor-agnostic.
    — Jack Stewart, WIRED, 29 June 2018
  • Just why so many agnostics, and even atheists, believe in a higher power is a matter of debate.
    — Washington Post, 25 Apr. 2018
  • The service is agnostic about what is being stored and handles all file content the same way, as a collection of bytes.
    — Samuel Axon, Ars Technica, 26 Feb. 2018
  • His genre-agnostic sound, a natural fit for the streaming era, has also caught attention.
    — Taylor Weatherby, Billboard, 26 June 2018
  • At one end of the spectrum were members of the clergy; at the other were agnostic and atheist scientists.
    — Sam Wineburg, Smithsonian, 12 June 2019
  • When the sun shines through and paints floors, walls, and people with moving color, the effect is aleatoric, agnostic, and otherworldly.
    — Susan Tallman, The New York Review of Books, 25 Apr. 2020
  • The term influencer was platform agnostic and described the growing and amorphous power that came with online fame.
    — Taylor Lorenz, Washington Post, 5 Aug. 2022
  • And until cloud gaming, there was no mass-market Netflix for videogames—on-demand content that’s device-agnostic.
    — Cecilia D'anastasio, Wired, 29 June 2020
  • To make millions of tests available per week, the NIH project is agnostic about technology.
    — Robert F. Service, Science | AAAS, 29 Apr. 2020
  • Sever says bioRxiv is agnostic about the particular pathways and models that might lead to that future.
    — Jeffrey Brainard, Science | AAAS, 10 Oct. 2019
  • Instead of building a streaming home for the Xbox, Mixer has remained platform-agnostic.
    — Amrita Khalid, Quartz, 28 Jan. 2020
  • Scoring was also mode agnostic, meaning ridehailing services like Uber and Lyft, or bikehare, earned as many points as a bus line.
    — Patrick Sisson, Curbed, 2 May 2018
  • What if those shares are run by computers that are agnostic, or worse, have been programmed to pursue a narrow objective such as getting firms to pay a dividend at all costs?
    — The Economist, 3 Oct. 2019
  • The guests range from Catholic parishioners to agnostics, and Jamel Oh trades jokes and quizzes them on Abrahamic religions.
    — Scott Greenstone, The Seattle Times, 22 June 2017
  • One once walked the runway as out-of-drag RuPaul, looking 100 percent gender-agnostic.
    — Spencer Kornhaber, The Atlantic, 6 Mar. 2018
  • In the past 18 months, the FDA approved the first and second tissue-agnostic therapies.
    — Scientific American, 2 Oct. 2019
  • Despite being an agnostic, mom enrolls Cathleen in Catholic school, and something about the church speaks to the girl’s unfulfilled longings.
    — Mick Lasalle, San Francisco Chronicle, 3 Nov. 2017
  • Obviously there are South Asian men who are Hindu or Christian or atheist or agnostic.
    — Alexia Underwood, Vox, 6 Apr. 2018
  • When the Yanks are chasing history, even Denver’s soccer agnostics are looking for a shotgun seat on the bandwagon.
    — Sean Keeler, Denver Post, 2 July 2026
  • But as Social Capital begins to expand and veer toward being stage-agnostic, some people aren’t on board with the direction the firm is taking.
    — Polina Marinova, Fortune, 26 Oct. 2017
  • But the game-agnostic screen sampler is probably more alluring, given the fractured RGB sector.
    — Hayden Dingman, PCWorld, 15 Mar. 2018
  • Curious agnostics can quiz Alexa on how to pray, what Christians believe and who the Archbishop of Canterbury is.
    — The Economist, 23 May 2018
  • CISOs must now devise strategies to ensure that data is protected (often at the record level) in a manner agnostic to where it is stored or processed.
    — Ameesh Divatia, Forbes, 2 June 2022
  • In his world, the Supreme Court is an agnostic, apolitical body — above and beyond the influence of partisanship or corrosive forces that have nothing to do with the law.
    — Cristian Farias, Daily Intelligencer, 18 June 2018
  • Twenty One Pilots, the rap-rock-ska duo from Columbus, Ohio, is another example of a band who've broken through genre-agnostic releases.
    — Maeve McDermott, USA TODAY, 20 Mar. 2018
  • This presents a potential long-term threat to the free, open architecture of podcasting, though projects like The Podcast Index are aiming to preserve the medium as platform-agnostic.
    — John Sullivan, The Conversation, 13 May 2021
  • As agnostics, we are also intrigued by the return of certain humanitarian values to Catholicism under Pope Francis — the idea of the Church as a place for the outcast.
    — Anna Marie De La Fuente, Variety, 16 Aug. 2025

agnostic

2 of 2 adjective
  • What’s more, the event is age-agnostic by design.
    — Britt Julious, Chicago Tribune, 29 May 2026
  • There’s no world in which that translates to device-agnostic cloud gaming.
    — Cecilia D'anastasio, Wired, 29 June 2020
  • The simple shape is style-agnostic, durable, and dishwasher-safe for easy cleanup.
    — Kate McGregor, Architectural Digest, 12 Dec. 2025
  • Genre-wise, the album is pretty agnostic.
    — Marissa R. Moss, Rolling Stone, 23 Oct. 2025
  • Brand-agnostic buyers with no switching costs.
    — Peter Su, Forbes.com, 20 June 2026
  • The best floral dresses are season agnostic, like this spring to fall to winter dress.
    — Halie Lesavage, Harper's BAZAAR, 29 Dec. 2022
  • Ten Eleven is stage agnostic and global, so the fund can invest past a startup’s seed stage.
    — Bylucy Brewster, Fortune, 24 Jan. 2023
  • Obfuscation along with fuzzy thinking seems to be agnostic to age.
    — Neil Senturia, San Diego Union-Tribune, 19 Aug. 2020
  • In the agnostic household of my childhood, that O’Hara line was gospel.
    — New York Times, 22 June 2022
  • Pitbull is agnostic about genre — almost any sound or style can be put in service of his buoyant creations.
    — Jon Caramanica, New York Times, 15 Mar. 2017
  • These traders appear to follow an agnostic long/short trading approach, lasting one to two weeks.
    — Javier Paz, Forbes, 7 Dec. 2021
  • Pro tracker is hardware-agnostic and loud and—most importantly—has a long range.
    — Hunter Fenollol, Popular Mechanics, 25 Aug. 2021
  • Another member of the group is agnostic.
    — Jeanne Phillips, Dallas Morning News, 5 Jan. 2026
  • How else to explain the agnostic stand of companies like Twitter?
    — Jacob Silverman, New Republic, 17 Aug. 2017
  • This is an agnostic solution that doesn’t attempt to judge the quality of each model.
    — Scott K. Johnson, Ars Technica, 17 Nov. 2020
  • In this more agnostic age, picking up the Bible can be just as startling an act of rebellion in many households.
    — Guy Lodge, chicagotribune.com, 27 Apr. 2017
  • The kids want to use time travel to go back to Earth in the future, but the captain says no, and Eleven is agnostic.
    — Amanda Whiting, Vulture, 23 Dec. 2021
  • And McDonald’s is not agnostic about that.
    — Liz Hoffman, semafor.com, 3 Mar. 2026
  • The conflict in Ukraine has upended the idea that products and services are agnostic.
    — New York Times, 28 Mar. 2022
  • That’s probably more of me being smartwatch-agnostic, though.
    — Todd Plummer, Robb Report, 17 Feb. 2026
  • The legacy of Latter-day Saint lingo lives on in my agnostic husband.
    — The Salt Lake Tribune, 10 Sep. 2023
  • Shoppers would bring their brand-agnostic reusable glass jars to refill with all the essentials.
    — Kara McGrath, Allure, 22 Apr. 2026
  • In the series, Joanne is an agnostic podcaster who falls for a rabbi (Brody).
    — Rance Collins, IndieWire, 10 Aug. 2025
  • Styled by Kate Young, Johnson has taken a brand agnostic to naked dressing.
    — Anna Cafolla, Vogue, 26 Sep. 2025
  • Bell stars as agnostic podcaster Joanne who falls in love with a rabbi named Noah, played by Brody.
    — Joe Otterson, Variety, 8 Apr. 2026
  • The reality is that Shopify long ago ceased to be just an agnostic builder of e-commerce websites.
    — New York Times, 17 Nov. 2020
  • But movies, television, and music are all becoming more and more device-agnostic.
    — Cecilia D'anastasio, Wired, 8 June 2020
  • That model-agnostic stance is not new for Perplexity.
    — Sharon Goldman, Fortune, 26 Feb. 2026
  • Microsoft has preached its vision of a device-agnostic future as a way of breaking down barriers.
    — New York Times, 19 Jan. 2022
  • Bing's crawler does take mobile-friendliness into account but is device-agnostic.
    — PC Magazine, 11 Aug. 2025

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