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The school’s noncommitment to ethnic studies illustrates how hollow and meaningless its rhetoric continues to be.

From Seattle Times • May 10, 2024

The researchers next looked at the relationship between the vividness of people’s imaginations and noncommitment by using both standard questionnaire measures and participants’ own ratings of how vividly they pictured the scenes.

From Scientific American • Jul. 20, 2023

Confabulation is an issue, but understanding noncommitment better could help develop ways of eliciting more accurate eyewitness testimony, he says.

From Scientific American • Jul. 20, 2023

“My statement was a model of clarity,” she said, as if those who’d noticed her noncommitment were the disingenuous ones.

From Slate • Sep. 30, 2020

The underlying reason for this calculated orchestration of noncommitment was obvious: Any clear resolution of the slavery question one way or the other rendered ratification of the Constitution virtually impossible.

From "Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation" by Joseph J. Ellis