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  • adjective Not forcible.

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non- +‎ forcible

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Examples

  • After the U.S. adoption of the nonforcible repatriation policy turned the conflict into a low-grade war of nerves and attrition, relative power factors actually shaped the behavior of all the belligerents.

    How Wars end Gideon Rose 2010

  • What this means is that there are really three parts to the endgame story: the initial acceptance of a stalemate, the decision to insist on nonforcible repatriation, and the refusal to abandon that insistence come what may.

    How Wars end Gideon Rose 2010

  • A handful of state legislatures have made nonconsensual, nonforcible intercourse a lesser offense than rape,9 and the New Jersey Supreme Court held in State ex rel.

    False Rape Reports 2005

  • Texas right to sexual autonomy generally applies to members of the armed forces, and 2 holds that a noncommissioned officer can be punished for engaging in nonforcible oral sex with a subordinate.

    The Volokh Conspiracy » Oral sex in the armed forces: 2004

  • JOE BIDEN, U.S. Vice President, on the FBI's first update to the definition of rape, which now includes nonforcible acts and removes the restriction that the attack must be toward a woman

    TIME.com: Top Stories 2011

  • JOE BIDEN, U.S. Vice President, on the FBI's first update to the definition of rape, which now includes nonforcible acts and removes the restriction that the attack must be toward a woman

    TIME.com: Top Stories 2012

  • JOE BIDEN, U.S. Vice President, on the FBI's first update to the definition of rape, which now includes nonforcible acts and removes the restriction that the attack must be toward a woman

    TIME.com: Top Stories 2012

  • JOE BIDEN, U.S. Vice President, on the FBI's first update to the definition of rape, which now includes nonforcible acts and removes the restriction that the attack must be toward a woman

    TIME.com: Top Stories 2012

  • JOE BIDEN, U.S. Vice President, on the FBI's first update to the definition of rape, which now includes nonforcible acts and removes the restriction that the attack must be toward a woman

    TIME.com: Top Stories 2011

  • JOE BIDEN, U.S. Vice President, on the FBI's first update to the definition of rape, which now includes nonforcible acts and removes the restriction that the attack must be toward a woman

    TIME.com: Top Stories 2012

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