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- adjective Not
obvious .
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Examples
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Once when I wasn't finding the non-obvious place, I put a false bottom in a little bedroom waste basket; threw a few crumpled up pieces of papers and a used tissue (tissue .... not TP!) in it.
~~~> Safety 2009
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Conversations ranged from exploring non-obvious innovation like reducing the need for sleep, to what human existence would be like if we lived totally inside a virtual world, to the fate of Yahoo and the challenge that Google TV could bring to existing cable TV offering.
Steve Rosenbaum: Do We Trust Google To Run Our Highways? Steve Rosenbaum 2010
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Substantively, I have my doubts as to whether tests based on genetic markers are non-obvious.
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Once when I wasn't finding the non-obvious place, I put a false bottom in a little bedroom waste basket; threw a few crumpled up pieces of papers and a used tissue (tissue .... not TP!) in it.
~~~> Safety 2009
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There are non-obvious scenarios where you cannot tell whether your accelerator is sticking (such as the hill example).
The Volokh Conspiracy » Toyota Facing $16 Million Fine … 2010
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To be deserving of patent protection, a series of criteria must be met including a requirement that the source of the patent be novel and non-obvious.
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Once when I wasn't finding the non-obvious place, I put a false bottom in a little bedroom waste basket; threw a few crumpled up pieces of papers and a used tissue (tissue .... not TP!) in it.
~~~> Safety 2009
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The Nunn-Lugar Bill (and its follow-ups, Kerry-Lugar and Obama-Lugar) were responsible, effective legislation that addressed a non-obvious problem in an intelligent manner. ed says:
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Once when I wasn't finding the non-obvious place, I put a false bottom in a little bedroom waste basket; threw a few crumpled up pieces of papers and a used tissue (tissue .... not TP!) in it.
~~~> Safety 2009
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There are non-obvious scenarios where you cannot tell whether your accelerator is sticking (such as the hill example).
The Volokh Conspiracy » Toyota Facing $16 Million Fine … 2010
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