Example Sentences

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One who practices wu wei, or nonaction, is someone free of unnecessary, self-gratifying desires.

From Textbooks • Jun. 15, 2022

I think this a real opportunity for nonaction.

From Slate • Dec. 31, 2019

He witnessed the cost of political nonaction in 2004.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 6, 2018

It has to escalate so that heads of state, heads of government, will consider the social, financial, and human costs of nonaction.

From Science Magazine • Oct. 14, 2015

What he didn't say but what was now perfectly clear to me and Ms. Taggart was that that meant nonaction.

From "Tradition" by Brendan Kiely