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  • adjective Alternative spelling of nonsuicidal.

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Examples

  • Self-injury behavior, which, in the videos, most often took the form of self-cutting, is known as non-suicidal self-injury NSSI because while it involves the deliberate destruction of one's own body tissue, it is not necessarily driven by a desire for suicide.

    ABC News: Top Stories 2011

  • Tell Bono I want my seventy bucks back, to go against the rain to charity; tell Bono I want it to go to a non-suicidal Palestinian.

    Time Ann Bogle 2011

  • Of course this is assuming there are at least 50 non-suicidal Democrats left in the Senate.

    Matthew Yglesias » Panic! at the Caucus Meeting 2010

  • People DO commit suicide for a number of reasons; some that normal (i.e., non-suicidal) people may never be able to fathom. by

    Freddie Mac Acting CFO Suicides 2009

  • If they can't attract at least a few moderate (read non-suicidal) Republicans to their measure, they ought to re-think what they're proposing.

    Lieberman Aide Threatens Reid: He'll Bolt Dem Caucus 2009

  • The flaw in the logic is that a suicidal person is unable to comprehend such a reason, just as a non-suicidal person doesn't need one.

    Archive 2008-03-01 1 Dinosaur 2008

  • In a recent letter to The New England Journal of Medicine, doctors in Syracuse, N.Y., described two previously non-suicidal patients - a depressed man and a depressed, bulimic woman - who became suicidal within weeks of starting Prozac.

    A Prozac Backlash 2008

  • The flaw in the logic is that a suicidal person is unable to comprehend such a reason, just as a non-suicidal person doesn't need one.

    Answering the Real Question 1 Dinosaur 2008

  • And the fact that Russia and China are not only becoming business partners, but also have the ability to rain instant nuclear ruin on the US will always trump the radical neocons delusions of playing a non-suicidal nuclear strategy that benefits only the US

    Think Progress » Gingrich: There Is An ‘Insurgency’ in CT Which Says ‘Can’t We Come Home And Hide?’ 2006

  • Its existence was inferred by contrasting the genetic codes of the suicidal to the non-suicidal.

    Slate.com makes the Human Biodiversity case against evolutionary psychology: Steve Sailer 2005

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