How to Use agnosticism in a Sentence

agnosticism

noun
  • The country has seen a gradual rise in agnosticism in recent years.
    — Reuters, CNN, 11 Dec. 2020
  • In reality, many people think of agnosticism as a less stringent form of atheism.
    — Harmeet Kaur, CNN, 10 Mar. 2024
  • For me, the only sensible position at this point is agnosticism.
    — Sean Illing, Vox, 11 May 2024
  • But George Eliot was intensely sincere in both her agnosticism and her moralism.
    — James Wood, The New Yorker, 4 Sep. 2023
  • Freud's health is failing, Europe is on the brink of war, and Lewis has come to challenge Freud on his agnosticism.
    — USA TODAY, 18 Jan. 2024
  • Indeed, this sort of agnosticism does give China an advantage.
    — Oriana Skylar Mastro, Foreign Affairs, 11 Dec. 2018
  • Her music mixes those art-school underpinnings with the genre agnosticism common to her cohort.
    — Washington Post, 31 Mar. 2022
  • There is a difference between agnosticism and refusal.
    — Jason Snyder, Forbes.com, 17 May 2026
  • Others joked about returning to the Catholic Church after a lifetime of agnosticism and atheism.
    — Dani Di Placido, Forbes.com, 26 May 2026
  • Some people confuse agnosticism (not knowing) with apathy (not caring).
    — John Horgan, Scientific American, 14 Aug. 2021
  • 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
  • Its political agnosticism is seen, uncommonly, as a merit for loftier aims.
    — Chris R. Morgan, The Washington Examiner, 22 Aug. 2025
  • But the shift towards a subscription model and the platform agnosticism in mobile feels increasingly inevitable.
    — Simon Hill, WIRED, 24 Mar. 2024
  • Satanists should actively work to hone critical thinking and exercise reasonable agnosticism in all things.
    — Mike Snider, USA TODAY, 30 Oct. 2021
  • Still, the show’s diverse and good-humored portrayals should never be mistaken for agnosticism; its progressive politics were always clear.
    — Kovie Biakolo, Vulture, 24 Mar. 2021
  • Rather, the terms atheism and agnosticism answer different questions, Nick Fish of American Atheists said.
    — Harmeet Kaur, CNN, 10 Mar. 2024
  • Asian religious traditions have long had a strand which accepts both immortality of consciousness as well as agnosticism or atheism in relation to supernatural agents, gods.
    — Razib Khan, Discover Magazine, 13 Sep. 2010
  • Minervini’s agnosticism matches his plain, quasi-doc images — relentlessly dull except when an elderly bearded sergeant watches rebel soldiers on horseback fill the horizon line, riding toward him.
    — Armond White, National Review, 2 Oct. 2024
  • Powell makes no promises Dimon’s agnosticism regarding Fed rate speculation might be tactical.
    — Eleanor Pringle, Fortune, 8 Aug. 2024
  • Too often this inability to infer specific large scale cultural constructs because of the limitations of method slides into agnosticism or skepticism of the existence of such constructs at all!
    — Razib Khan, Discover Magazine, 26 July 2011
  • At a time when death metal bands are experimenting with new age and hardcore bands are embracing pop, Agriculture stand out by making their genre agnosticism feel proudly coherent, like these sounds were always meant to coexist.
    — Sam Sodomsky, Pitchfork, 7 Jan. 2026
  • Hardy was scrupulously present in church, despite his agnosticism; George Sand was careful to stop her son marrying a girl who was illegitimate, despite her own determination to be free from convention.
    — Tim Parks, The New York Review of Books, 10 July 2020
  • As if extolling radical agnosticism, the film concludes by discussing the role of women in the church and an intersex cardinal’s laparoscopic hysterectomy before finally tossing its bad faith to a hermaphrodite pope.
    — Armond White, National Review, 19 Feb. 2025
  • Darwin’s position was philosophical – an articulation of Occam’s razor – and was consistent with his agnosticism.
    — Jonathon Keats, Forbes, 23 Sep. 2024
  • As success is found in each of these areas and software continues to evolve into architectural agnosticism, Arm and its partners should find opportunity in the more traditional markets, where x86 has a stronghold.
    — Matt Kimball, Forbes, 28 Apr. 2021
  • Our humanism is a Euro-American ideology, and its keynotes are progress, liberal individualism, agnosticism or atheism, and trusting the science.
    — Dominic Green, WSJ, 24 Mar. 2023

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