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Traffic stops represent the most common nonvoluntary interaction between citizens and police officers in the U.S.

From Salon • Feb. 7, 2023

But since that is highly unlikely, Miss Manners urges that "tolerance and kindness should be summoned, at least to those who are nonvoluntary participants in the relationship, the legal wife and all the children."

From Time Magazine Archive

Outline—Chapter XI Attention the mother of learning.—Gregory quoted.—The fact of attention in the Army.—What attention is.—Illustrations.—Attention and interest.—The three types of attention: Involuntary, nonvoluntary, voluntary.—How to secure attention.—Interest the great key to attention.

From Principles of Teaching by Bennion, Adam S.

Which fatigues you more, to give attention of the nonvoluntary type, or the voluntary?

From The Mind and Its Education by Betts, George Herbert

If attention comes in the second way, following interest,23 it is called nonvoluntary or spontaneous attention; if in the third, compelled by the will, voluntary or active attention.

From The Mind and Its Education by Betts, George Herbert