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  • adjective Not intrusive.

Etymologies

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non- +‎ intrusive

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Examples

  • Google made historic profits from that product by creating a new form of advertising—nonintrusive and even useful.

    In the Plex Steven Levy 2011

  • Google made historic profits from that product by creating a new form of advertising—nonintrusive and even useful.

    In the Plex Steven Levy 2011

  • Conservative prnciples are a nonintrusive government, fiscal responsibility and a strong national defense.

    Conservatism is far from dead 2009

  • The inputs necessary are simple, and boil down to four things: when taxes are light, regulation is nonintrusive, trade is free and money values stable, stocks do well.

    Bad Policy Explains Dow Stuck At 10,000 2010

  • The inputs necessary are simple, and boil down to four things: when taxes are light, regulation is nonintrusive, trade is free and money values stable, stocks do well.

    Good Policy Will Boost The Dow 2010

  • They were careful and nonintrusive, not sure what I had seen.

    A Nightmare’s Prayer Michael Franzak 2010

  • Danie and Guy were warm, laid-back, supportive and nonintrusive, and when mealtime came, she served up feasts derived almost solely from the farm.

    The Foie Gras Wars Mark Caro 2009

  • This seems to me to be sufficiently nonintrusive to be within the right to contact law enforcement as a matter oflaw.

    The Volokh Conspiracy » Calling the Police as Negligence: 2009

  • Danie and Guy were warm, laid-back, supportive and nonintrusive, and when mealtime came, she served up feasts derived almost solely from the farm.

    The Foie Gras Wars Mark Caro 2009

  • You have to become a quiet, nonintrusive part of the event.

    Shawn Amos: A Look at "Barack Obama: The Official Inaugural Book" 2009

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