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  • "It would be a remarkable discovery," I said non-committally, for the whole thing seemed too fantastic for aught but speculative purposes.

    Moon Face:The Shadow and the Flash 2010

  • (A pause, in which Starkweather waits non-committally.)

    THEFT 2010

  • Had someone spoke to him at that very instant as the next it was gone, he would have answered softly, non-committally; in his mind, however, his voice clear and his tone dry, he would have snapped, glaring.

    A Man Felix S. 2011

  • Vance Corliss shook his head non-committally, and laughed.

    CHAPTER 8 2010

  • Smoke squared his shoulders and laughed non-committally.

    THE RACE FOR NUMBER ONE 2010

  • For Hinton, an important feature of his Perception-Illusion Disjunctions is that they do not report what is happening to the subject, as distinct from saying, non-committally, that one of a number of things is happening.

    Petty Injuries 2009

  • He nodded sympathetically and non-committally, though he did admit the school's fault in not notifying parents of the original teacher's long-term absence.

    Archive 2007-12-01 Becca 2007

  • He nodded sympathetically and non-committally, though he did admit the school's fault in not notifying parents of the original teacher's long-term absence.

    Today's Post Becca 2007

  • And he looked at his visitor non-committally, and yet with a genial show of interest.

    The Financier 2004

  • She looked up when he entered, raising an eyebrow non-committally, and only then did Kellen remember that when he'd gone out he'd been wearing a different set of clothes entirely.

    The Outstretched Shadow 2003

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