nonlife
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of nonlife
Example Sentences
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"The method captured not only the distinction between life and nonlife, but also degrees of preservation and alteration."
From Science Daily ● May 12, 2026
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
Modern cosmology and astrobiology have most of the questions I look for—the idea of the transition from nonlife, to life, to me, is absolutely fascinating.
From Scientific American ● Mar. 20, 2019
She was to have been the answer to his unstated, unacknowledged question—where was the life to counter the encroaching nonlife?
From "The Bluest Eye" by Toni Morrison
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