Example Sentences

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Testing small-cap investors’ snapback hypothesis is difficult, since there have been just five nonoverlapping 20-year periods over the past century.

From MarketWatch • Nov. 20, 2025

Each antibody targeted different, nonoverlapping regions of the dark side, demonstrating that this region has multiple areas that may be useful to explore for countermeasure development.

From Science Daily • Mar. 1, 2024

The thing that should make you most suspicious is that different groups have nonoverlapping utopias that they hope will be achieved in space.

From Scientific American • Nov. 9, 2023

The problem reminded Dr. Rycroft of a Voronoi diagram, a geometric construction that divides a space into nonoverlapping subregions — polygons, or Voronoi cells, that each emanate from a seed point.

From New York Times • Aug. 5, 2022

Moglen says Stallman, Nelson, and Gilmore each stand out in historically significant, nonoverlapping ways.

From Free as in Freedom: Richard Stallman's Crusade for Free Software by Williams, Sam