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  • adjective Not predatory.

Etymologies

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non- +‎ predatory

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Examples

  • Related to that, is dominance linked to predatory changeling groups only, or can a nonpredatory changeling be dominant.

    Q & A Nalini Singh 2009

  • Related to that, is dominance linked to predatory changeling groups only, or can a nonpredatory changeling be dominant.

    Q & A Nalini Singh 2009

  • How about this: the government can buy predatory loans at 60 cents on the dollar, and convert them to nonpredatory loans at a fixed interest rate.

    Happy Hour Roundup 2009

  • And the consumers benefit, as long as they can make their nonpredatory payments.

    Happy Hour Roundup 2009

  • This includes improving competition and transparent shopping opportunities, promoting a viable and nonpredatory subprime market, advancing new consumer decision-making tools, and increasing product innovation to serve a wide range of credit needs.

    Janis Bowdler: Congress Has a Responsibility to Establish Strong Consumer Financial Protection 2009

  • I was in one of those nonpredatory moods that can settle on a fisherman late in the season.

    Off Season 2003

  • And similarly, in modern society not only did everyone vie for fierce excellence in the eyes of his fellow man, but as part of the same process, everyone “instinctively” felt the indignity that attached to nonpredatory means of livelihood, such as work.

    The Worldly Philosophers Robert L. Heilbroner 1999

  • And similarly, in modern society not only did everyone vie for fierce excellence in the eyes of his fellow man, but as part of the same process, everyone “instinctively” felt the indignity that attached to nonpredatory means of livelihood, such as work.

    The Worldly Philosophers Robert L. Heilbroner 1999

  • It is a good candidate for polyculture because of its nonpredatory and herbivorous nature.

    4 Coastal Mariculture 1987

  • Kokanee are good for Vallecito Reservoir because they are nonpredatory - they eat plankton

    Durangoherald.com 2009

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