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Eventually, the resident next door said the easement was terminated over nonuse.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 12, 2024

Using a robotic arm to track 3D spatial information, and machine learning techniques to process the data, the method generates an "arm nonuse" metric, which could help clinicians accurately assess a patient's rehabilitation progress.

From Science Daily • Nov. 16, 2023

A: About 15 years ago PCs began to offer a “sleep mode” that would kick in after a specified period of nonuse.

From Seattle Times • Oct. 1, 2022

The fuzzy distinction between use and nonuse may also help to explain why we haven’t seen a mass exodus of users from Facebook.

From Slate • Dec. 19, 2018

In the first instance, 146 there is not only interest on unemployed capital, but the capital is actually deteriorating through nonuse.

From The Young Farmer: Some Things He Should Know by Hunt, Thomas Forsyth