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atheist

[ay-thee-ist] / ˈeɪ θi ɪst /
NOUN
nonbeliever in God
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He describes himself as an atheist and said it felt like "a bit of an imposition and probably a bit unfair and silly".

From BBC ● Nov. 17, 2025

The Chinese government remains officially atheist and keeps tight control over organized religion.

From Barron's ● Nov. 1, 2025

Officially, the Communist Party is atheist, with the only legal churches in China being those sanctioned by the state.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 12, 2025

Together, the characters represent the spectrum of religious attitudes — from atheist to convert, selectively to very observant — but all are steeped in the culture.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 22, 2025

A lover of men, not women, and an atheist, he used the device of space travel to criticize everything he disliked about the real world.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton

No, that lyric wasn’t written by the Byrds in 1965, and even atheists who hear “Turn! Turn! Turn!” on oldies radio might want to understand that the song is drawing from a deep well.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 21, 2026

All around him now there are football atheists.

From BBC ● Dec. 17, 2025

This time of year invites us all, believers and atheists alike, to emerge from our own suspended animation or curled-up little balls, like cummings writes at the end of that poem:

From Salon ● Apr. 20, 2025

The demographic classification itself is extremely broad, encompassing white and Indigenous and Afro-Latinos, long-conservative anti-leftist refugees from Venezuela and Cuba, Democratic-loyal Mexican Americans, immigrants, U.S.–born citizens, bigots and progressives, Catholics and Protestants and atheists.

From Slate ● Feb. 24, 2025

My parents also considered themselves atheists and raised us as such.

From "Americanized" by Sara Saedi


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