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The nonsectarian center hosts retreats that range from 3 to 13 nights, for a wide variety of experience levels, with a central focus on Theravadin teachings and bodhicitta (striving to attain enlightenment for the benefit of all sentient beings).
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AFAR Media, 9 July 2025
Most recently, in 2022, the Supreme Court said Maine cannot limit a tuition assistance program to nonsectarian schools.
—Melissa Quinn, CBS News, 22 May 2025
The key difference is charter schools are privately operated, with most states, including Oklahoma, requiring they are run in a nonsectarian way.
—Lexi Lonas Cochran, The Hill, 30 Apr. 2025
For decades in California, those dollars have only been permitted to go to schools that are nonsectarian.
—Hannah Fry, Los Angeles Times, 30 Oct. 2024
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AFAR Media, 9 July 2025
Most recently, in 2022, the Supreme Court said Maine cannot limit a tuition assistance program to nonsectarian schools.
—Melissa Quinn, CBS News, 22 May 2025
The key difference is charter schools are privately operated, with most states, including Oklahoma, requiring they are run in a nonsectarian way.
—Lexi Lonas Cochran, The Hill, 30 Apr. 2025
For decades in California, those dollars have only been permitted to go to schools that are nonsectarian.
—Hannah Fry, Los Angeles Times, 30 Oct. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for nonsectarian
nondenominational
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The nondenominational church’s firebrand minister, the Rev. William Sloane Coffin, not only spoke out against the war in the 1960s, but also advocated forcefully for nuclear disarmament in the 1970s.—
Luke Cyphers,
Sportico.com,
17 Oct. 2025
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Trenton Stewart Stewart was an employee with AES, a firefighter in Waverly and a pastor at a small nondenominational church in the same town called The Log Church, according to his Facebook page.—
Abigail Adams,
PEOPLE,
14 Oct. 2025
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“Nonsectarian.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/nonsectarian. Accessed 29 Oct. 2025.
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