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from The Century Dictionary.

  • In an agnostic manner; from an agnostic point of view; with a tendency or inclination to agnosticism; as an agnostic.

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  • adverb In an agnostic manner.

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Examples

  • And all these applications, they have to be able to talk to each other agnostically.

    What makes Sybase worth nearly $6 billion to SAP? John Gallant and Eric Knorr 2010

  • In our post-modern society there is a disturbing trend toward agnostically treating all purpose equally when it should be obvious that all purpose is not created equal.

    Is Google Simply Wasting Its Money? August Turak 2010

  • And all these applications, they have to be able to talk to each other agnostically.

    How Sybase rescued itself and became worth $6 billion 2010

  • Articles now carry the publication date of the actual publication date, agnostically.

    Platform Agnostic? The Needle Points Toward the Web 2008

  • I, as an atheistically/agnostically inclined non-Muslim, hold the belief that Muhammad did not receive instruction/revelation from God.

    Archive 2007-11-01 James 2007

  • I, as an atheistically/agnostically inclined non-Muslim, hold the belief that Muhammad did not receive instruction/revelation from God.

    Does being non-Muslim entail holding blasphemous beliefs? (Part Two) James 2007

  • Though Darwinian evolutionists may wish to paint this book as serving the Christian right, and creationists may choose to embrace it as supporting their literalist theist views, the truth is that this book was written by an agnostically raised scientist with an open and inquisitive mind who is following the data where it takes him.

    The G.O.D. Experiments Gary E. Schwartz 2006

  • Clearly, what the military is trying to do in Iraq right now is very agnostically establish a professional ethos.

    CNN Transcript Sep 1, 2006 2006

  • All I want to see is an honest attempt to agnostically account for all the factors and to use the accounting to name the caveats that are needed when using GCMs. The reluctance to do that tells me that I am onto something.

    Reply to Science « Climate Audit 2006

  • Timothy, by thy persistent commerce with the mystic visions, leave behind both sensible perceptions and intellectual efforts, and all objects of sense and intelligence, and all things not being and being, and be raised aloft agnostically to the union, as attainable, with Him Who is above every essence and knowledge.

    Dionysius the Areopagite, Works (1897) Dionysius the Areopagite 1897

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