nonlife
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of nonlife
Example Sentences
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However, nonlife insurers will experience revenue squeezed by pricing pressure next year, they say.
From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 18, 2025
Moreover Cleland argues that it’s always possible to come up with an abstraction of life so coarse that it inadvertently includes some examples of nonlife.
From Scientific American • Apr. 6, 2023
Two officers were transported to a hospital where they also were treated for nonlife threatening injuries, police said.
From Washington Post • Oct. 23, 2021
Dr. Sutherland too gave little credence to the argument that Luca might lie in some gray transition zone between nonlife and life just because it depended on its environment for some essential components.
From New York Times • Jul. 25, 2016
She was to have been the answer to his unstated, unacknowledged question—where was the life to counter the encroaching nonlife?
From "The Bluest Eye" by Toni Morrison
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