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irreligious

[ir-i-lij-uhs] / ˌɪr ɪˈlɪdʒ əs /


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"Not only is this a sacred day, the most sacred in the Jewish calendar, but it's also a time of mass gathering, and the time when the Jewish community, however religious or irreligious, gathers together."

From BBC Oct. 2, 2025

“It’s not the revolution that turned some into atheists or irreligious; the revolution gave them the freedom and courage to speak up,” Elmihy said.

From Seattle Times Oct. 4, 2023

A Christmas Eve gathering might assemble irreligious friends, a meet-the-artist event at the shop might end up twice the size at her place.

From Los Angeles Times Nov. 10, 2022

We’ve been denouncing religious intolerance, but I’m afraid many of us liberals have a problem with irreligious intolerance.

From New York Times Dec. 19, 2020

Clergymen, like Transcendentalists, in England were generally conservative, or reactionary; and the friends of reform were much more irreligious than in America.

From Liberty In The Nineteenth Century by Holland, Frederic May




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