nonlife
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of nonlife
Example Sentences
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However, nonlife insurers will experience revenue squeezed by pricing pressure next year, they say.
From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 18, 2025
Two officers were transported to a hospital where they also were treated for nonlife threatening injuries, police said.
From Washington Post • Oct. 23, 2021
Unless we can prove a theorem that there is only one or very few biochemical pathways from nonlife to life, we can’t be certain of what happened here some 4 billion years ago.
From Scientific American • Mar. 4, 2018
Dr. Sutherland too gave little credence to the argument that Luca might lie in some gray transition zone between nonlife and life just because it depended on its environment for some essential components.
From New York Times • Jul. 25, 2016
They carry on their existence in the borderlands between life and nonlife.
From "The Hot Zone" by Richard Preston
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