How to Use secularism in a Sentence

secularism

noun
  • The answer, by and large, turns out to be secularism.
    — Jessica Winter, New Yorker, 27 Feb. 2026
  • That's a 16-point jump in sort of secularism in the last 20 years.
    — NBC News, 25 Mar. 2018
  • That may be in part because France is proud of its commitment to secularism.
    — Karla Adam, Washington Post, 4 Mar. 2024
  • Bercot rectifies the ways that modern secularism copes with grief.
    — Armond White, National Review, 2 Nov. 2022
  • Despite their secularism, his parents agreed to allow their son to be confirmed.
    — Emily Langer, Washington Post, 13 June 2024
  • In the years that followed, the notion of secularism became more abstract.
    — Manveena Suri, CNN, 19 Nov. 2019
  • So conservative religion is up and secularism is up, and there’s not a whole lot left in the middle.
    — The Salt Lake Tribune, 9 Mar. 2022
  • The stale Nehruvian mix of secularism and socialism has lost its mass appeal.
    — Walter Russell Mead, WSJ, 10 Aug. 2020
  • Exponents see a small but indomitable movement, standing strong against a tide of secularism.
    — Kelefa Sanneh, The New Yorker, 27 Mar. 2023
  • That poses a sharp turn for a country whose constitution enshrines secularism and equal rights.
    — Omkar Khandekar, NPR, 6 May 2024
  • On the other hand, European-style secularism is unlikely to take hold any time soon.
    — Samuel Goldman, The Week, 23 Mar. 2022
  • So the fact that that’s shocking shows the degree to which secularism has become a shroud over academic societies.
    — Tyler Kingkade, NBC News, 23 Aug. 2023
  • This was part of the backwash from the rising secularism of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
    — Joan Acocella, The New Yorker, 15 Mar. 2021
  • Steinberg did not seem to think, or want to think, that Epstein’s appointment had much to do with secularism or with a decline in faith.
    — Nick Paumgarte, The New Yorker, 11 Sep. 2021
  • He was widely seen as the church’s strongest possible weapon against the pressures of secularism and relativism.
    — Jacqueline L. Salmon, Washington Post, 31 Dec. 2022
  • The episode is the latest row over Muslim women’s face- and body-coverings in a country with strict laws on secularism.
    — Claire Zillman, Fortune, 28 June 2019
  • Attal cited the core French principle of secularism in the public space.
    — Annabelle Timsit, Washington Post, 9 Jan. 2024
  • Some Turks treasure that secularism as a founding pillar of the republic.
    — Elif Ince, New York Times, 30 May 2023
  • The Congress Party has been weak in its commitment to secularism.
    — Isaac Chotiner, The New Yorker, 18 Dec. 2019
  • Ince's rally in the coastal city of Izmir, a bastion of secularism, drew hundreds of thousands Thursday.
    — Elena Becatoros and Zeynep Bilginsoy, Fox News, 22 June 2018
  • In this worldview, aggressive secularism and moralism go hand in hand with the reckless condemnation of whole groups and peoples.
    — Daniel J. Mahoney, National Review, 23 Sep. 2020
  • What's more extraordinary is that this is taking place in a country with a strong emphasis on secularism and a low rate of church attendance.
    — Thomas Adamson and Sylvie Corbet The Associated Press, arkansasonline.com, 9 Dec. 2024
  • There’s a certain Nixon-goes-to-China element to Sadr’s turn to secularism.
    — Thanassis Cambanis, BostonGlobe.com, 26 May 2018
  • Anyone who complains about the French state promotion of secularism is giving aid and comfort to such terrorists.
    — Karla Adam, Washington Post, 13 Oct. 2023
  • In the West, there is a long-running debate as to whether Shariah can coexist with secularism and democracy.
    — NBC News, 19 Apr. 2018
  • Read on to learn more about Black secularism, and how being Black and secular can be extremely isolating.
    — Maya Richard-Craven, Forbes, 5 Nov. 2024
  • Will the government impose its sense of secularism to be taught in our schools or hold priests and deacons accountable for their preaching the gospel or the teachings of the Church?
    — Sophie Carson, Journal Sentinel, 15 July 2024
  • But, in the US, secularism and de-Christianization are gaining ground.
    — Jacob Carozza, BostonGlobe.com, 11 Apr. 2018
  • Long before New Atheists stalked the earth, the cause of secularism possessed a peculiar missionary zeal.
    — Chris Lehmann, The New Republic, 3 Nov. 2021
  • By the postwar surge in religious observance, the main action before organized secularism was in the courts—and here a still greater irony was poised to overtake the movement.
    — Chris Lehmann, The New Republic, 3 Nov. 2021

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