secular

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The most fundamental issue the researchers attempted to resolve is the relationship their subjects had with what is commonly thought of as the American secular faith in democracy.

From Salon • Jul. 5, 2026

Those passages are surrounded by secular literature, such as works by Walt Whitman, Charles Dickens, Robert Frost, George Orwell and more.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 21, 2026

Since then, other revelations have further tarnished the legacy of the Chicano labor and civil rights leader long considered a secular saint.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 19, 2026

But what’s compelling about memory is that, despite its cyclical nature, it’s increasingly leveraged to “the secular growth” of hyperscalers providing massive cloud services, Rines told MarketWatch in an interview.

From MarketWatch • Jun. 18, 2026

In the midst of other grave personal problems, Kepler rushed to Wurttemberg to find his seventy-four-year-old mother chained in a Protestant secular dungeon and threatened, like Galileo in a Catholic dungeon, with torture.

From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan