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Examples
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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.
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(A pause, in which Starkweather waits non-committally.)
THEFT 2010
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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
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Vance Corliss shook his head non-committally, and laughed.
CHAPTER 8 2010
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Smoke squared his shoulders and laughed non-committally.
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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
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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
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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
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And he looked at his visitor non-committally, and yet with a genial show of interest.
The Financier 2004
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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.
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