Example Sentences

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“Would we want someone to dig up ours to answer interesting yet nonvital research questions?”

From New York Times • Mar. 22, 2022

Over the next decade, though, he traveled to other countries and learned about similar policies that allowed police to shoot at nonvital areas in certain circumstances.

From Washington Post • Oct. 24, 2021

Because of a lack of coal, the government has reduced supplies available to schools and homes�a harsh step as cold weather approaches�and has cut electricity to "nonvital" industries by 14%.

From Time Magazine Archive