Example Sentences

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“But no, we have not fixed the underlying major problem, which is an utterly nonresilient infrastructure that at the end of the day will determine how much suffering there is after a large storm.”

From Slate • May 17, 2018

We actually train our kids in school into nonresilient thinking, because we always come up with single solutions, single options.

From Slate • Mar. 19, 2012

Decades of dancing on nonresilient floors — "all those piazzas and squares where they were dancing on cement" — had taken a serious toll on the choreographer.

From Seattle Times • Oct. 20, 2011

Camel-smokers walked at least a mile for any kind of cigaret; candy-eaters really lost weight for lack of sugar; gum-chewers glumly clumped their jaws on nonresilient chicle.

From Time Magazine Archive