non-player

• “The Mets laid off nearly 10% of their non-player employees last month after a season in which they were projected to lose $50 million to $70 million.”

  The Wall Street Journal: Mets Cut Costs by Trimming Staff

• “Pawlenty is a non-starter and a non-player. truth hurts”

  McCain's V.P. guru picks Pawlenty for donation

• “The Republican Party has imploded nationally and has virtually become a non-player in most parts of New England.”

  Brown vies for Kennedy's seat

• “Mr. McCracken went to work for the Boston Red Sox, as did Mr. James himself, by then acclaimed as the most important non-player in the sport since Branch Rickey.”

  The Wall Street Journal: The Religion of Prediction

• “The only non-player who garnered the necessary votes this year was former minor league pitcher and longtime baseball executive Pat Gillick.”

  The Huffington Post: Peter Dreier: Baseball's Error: No Marvin Miller in the Hall of Fame

• “IBM was a non-player, according to the Gartner data.”

  IDG: IBM buys into data center switching with Blade acquisition

• “He has been a non-player in Congress for some time, this is his 15 seconds of fame.”

  Georgia congressman: Wilson's outburst 'carefully calculated'

• “This will include the ability to interact with the digital environment using real objects such as miniatures and provide automated calculations and visual and audio feedback for actions performed by the player and non-player characters.”

  Boing Boing

• “Among the dozens of non-player characters, alien investigative agent Garrus Vakarian stands out: having fought alongside him in the first game, the second sees him operating as a vigilante.”

  The Guardian: The 10 best video-game characters

• “What does kind of annoy me with it so far is the ability to take direct control of the non-player characters in your party.”

  Choices, Choices

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