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  • adjective computing Not generating a line break, as in non-breaking space or non-breaking hyphen.

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Examples

  • And they haven't trained their copy editors to write a non-breaking news headline.

    Marcia Meier: Jackson's Death Once Again Shows Newspapers Are Irrelevant 2009

  • WAYNE DRASH, SENIOR PRODUCER, CNN. COM: It was the single most visited non-breaking news story in cnn. com history.

    CNN Transcript Jan 12, 2008 2008

  • Newspaper reporters and PJs are the first and often only people on the ground actually acquiring information and verifying facts - particularly with non-breaking news.

    Understand newsroom problems 2008

  • Newspaper reporters and PJs are the first and often only people on the ground actually acquiring information and verifying facts - particularly with non-breaking news.

    Archive 2008-10-01 2008

  • Suffice it to say, it is the most viewed non-breaking story in CNN history.

    CNN Transcript Aug 25, 2007 2007

  • WAYNE DRASH, SENIOR PRODUCER, CNN. COM: It was the single most visited non-breaking news story in cnn. com history.

    CNN Transcript Dec 24, 2007 2007

  • And it's helping our print editions, too, by getting some non-breaking decisions made sooner.

    NYT's Keller Moves Up Page 1 Meeting 2007

  • #154 Yes, hydrostatic models are being used close to 10 km grids where they still are valid, but get much finer than that and you are in trouble, except in well-behaved cases like non-breaking flow over topography, or highly stratified flow with little vertical motion or resolved turbulence.

    Exponential Growth in Physical Systems « Climate Audit 2007

  • WAYNE DRASH, SENIOR PRODUCER, CNN. COM: It was the single most visited non-breaking news story in cnn. com history.

    CNN Transcript Dec 25, 2007 2007

  • But the "non-breaking space" entity will cause the browser to show one space for each character, so that you can indent as much as you need.

    The Project Gutenberg FAQ 2002 Jim Tinsley

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