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The Unknown #4 - This mini winds up with an interesting non-answer to the current mystery and an interesting prologue to the next.
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Similarly, Bachmann had little to say and did it badly: her non-answer on tax rates was a Bachmannesque word salad.
GOP presidential candidates debate in Orlando - as it happened 2011
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The Unknown #4 - This mini winds up with an interesting non-answer to the current mystery and an interesting prologue to the next.
August « 2009 « Axiom's Edge Science Fiction and Fantasy 2009
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The Unknown #4 - This mini winds up with an interesting non-answer to the current mystery and an interesting prologue to the next.
31 « August « 2009 « Axiom's Edge Science Fiction and Fantasy 2009
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But your elitist, non-answer response is enough evidence for anyone watching the exchange, I would wager ....
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God eventually responds with four chapters' worth of a non-answer.
John Backman: Is Why Worth Asking? Whom Do We Ask? John Backman 2011
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He could do his audience a favor by making his non-answer answers a little less blatant.
Eric Cantor knows best? The GOP moves on health care. Stephen Stromberg 2011
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If this were a formal debate, informal debate, or a casual conversation in private, his point would be smashed into the ground so hard that silence (embarrassed or calculated), or a stammering non-answer is all you are likely to hear in return.
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God eventually responds with four chapters' worth of a non-answer.
John Backman: Is Why Worth Asking? Whom Do We Ask? John Backman 2011
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The few who dared ask him directly were given a polite non-answer.
Stevens takes daughter by surprise with retirement news 2010
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