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  • adjective Not endangered.

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non- +‎ endangered

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Examples

  • It reminds me of the enviromentalists who demand wind power and then complain that nonendangered birds get chopped up in the windmill blades.

    Coyote Blog » Blog Archive » We Love [Name of Government Project] As Long As Someone Else Bears the Cost 2009

  • Japan classes its annual hunt -- mostly of nonendangered minke whales -- as scientific whaling within the commission's rules, but opponents regard it as illegal commercial whaling under the guise of science.

    China Post Online - Taiwan , News , Taiwan newspaper 2010

  • Japan classes its annual hunt -- mostly of nonendangered minke whales -- as scientific whaling within the commission's rules, but opponents regard it as illegal commercial whaling under the guise of science.

    China Post Online - Taiwan , News , Taiwan newspaper 2010

  • He unwrapped a dozen hand-dipped candles made from wax formed by bees who pollinated the colony’s organic garden, a hand-carved wooden wind chime from nonendangered trees that clacked soothingly when he waved his hand at it, and a rope of chilly sky-blue glass beads made of sand from some sacred site in India that he had a magazine story about in his files and would get me a copy of as soon as possible.

    Hoopi Shoopi Donna Suzanne Strempek Shea 1996

  • He unwrapped a dozen hand-dipped candles made from wax formed by bees who pollinated the colony’s organic garden, a hand-carved wooden wind chime from nonendangered trees that clacked soothingly when he waved his hand at it, and a rope of chilly sky-blue glass beads made of sand from some sacred site in India that he had a magazine story about in his files and would get me a copy of as soon as possible.

    Hoopi Shoopi Donna Suzanne Strempek Shea 1996

  • He unwrapped a dozen hand-dipped candles made from wax formed by bees who pollinated the colony’s organic garden, a hand-carved wooden wind chime from nonendangered trees that clacked soothingly when he waved his hand at it, and a rope of chilly sky-blue glass beads made of sand from some sacred site in India that he had a magazine story about in his files and would get me a copy of as soon as possible.

    Hoopi Shoopi Donna Suzanne Strempek Shea 1996

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