nonspeaking
Britishadjective
Example Sentences
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“He was there basically the whole season, waiting to die,” Gemmill says of the actor with the nonspeaking role, Ronald Alan Scarlata.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 17, 2026
For example, if a study’s sample includes autistic people who are nonspeaking, have intellectual disability, and require supported living, just say that.
From Science Magazine • Feb. 6, 2023
Born Dusan Simic in Belgrade in 1938, the year before World War II began, he would describe his youth as “a small, nonspeaking part/In a bloody epic.”
From Seattle Times • Jan. 9, 2023
Julie Mishkin had planned for the worst in taking her 13-year-old son Jack, who has autism and is nonspeaking, to see a show at the Kennedy Center in Washington.
From Washington Post • Aug. 3, 2022
This expansive and ecstatic debut, by a nonspeaking autistic poet who calls on “prayer to let all of / language answer me,” inaugurates the publisher’s “Multiverse” series of books by neurodivergent authors.
From New York Times • Mar. 16, 2022
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