separationist
Example Sentences
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“But it’s a separationist sort of act — us and them. Mine is not about that.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 23, 2025
That was a moment in American history when separationist secularism was pushing prayer out of state-funded schools, abolishing religious tests for public employment and showing unprecedented concern for the rights of religious minorities.
From Salon ● May 14, 2022
“To religious conservatives,” he wrote, “‘under God’ is a crucial symbol, the last religious reference left in the schools since the separationist makeover of education.”
From Washington Post ● May 13, 2022
When John F. Kennedy exclaimed in 1960: "I believe in an America where the separation of church and state is absolute," he was trumpeting the new separationist status quo.
From Salon ● Feb. 12, 2022
And he reflected that Decoud's separationist plan had not gone to the bottom with the lost silver.
From Nostromo, a Tale of the Seaboard by Conrad, Joseph
