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  • adjective Not supporting.

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Examples

  • Since beginning therapy, R had systematically ditched all the people who were nonsupporting, or those conditional in their love including, sadly, some family.

    A whole new world « The Life and Times of Organic Mama 2007

  • The creationist point of view is inherently antiscientific because it is an argument from authority: only one hypothesis is entertained and evidence is selectively appropriated (and often distorted) to support that hypothesis while all nonsupporting evidence is ignored or discounted.

    MAIL CALL 2007

  • But it is us, the nonsupporting, loudmouthed, VOTING, civilians who influence their decisions.

    Think Progress » McCain and Lieberman Express Support For Sending More Troops to Iraq 2006

  • Anecdotal evidence often is recalled selectively with the result that supporting anecdotes are more readily used than nonsupporting ones.

    MARKETING AESTHETICS BERND SCHMITT 1997

  • Anecdotal evidence often is recalled selectively with the result that supporting anecdotes are more readily used than nonsupporting ones.

    MARKETING AESTHETICS BERND SCHMITT 1997

  • Anecdotal evidence often is recalled selectively with the result that supporting anecdotes are more readily used than nonsupporting ones.

    MARKETING AESTHETICS BERND SCHMITT 1997

  • When the partitions are built, they will simply fill in the space between timbers and act only as nonsupporting, insulating curtains.

    BUILDING THE TIMBER FRAME HOUSE Tedd Benson 1980

  • When the partitions are built, they will simply fill in the space between timbers and act only as nonsupporting, insulating curtains.

    BUILDING THE TIMBER FRAME HOUSE Tedd Benson 1980

  • When the partitions are built, they will simply fill in the space between timbers and act only as nonsupporting, insulating curtains.

    BUILDING THE TIMBER FRAME HOUSE Tedd Benson 1980

  • When the partitions are built, they will simply fill in the space between timbers and act only as nonsupporting, insulating curtains.

    BUILDING THE TIMBER FRAME HOUSE Tedd Benson 1980

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