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- noun That which is not a
problem .
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Examples
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Prohibiting offshore drilling is pretty much a feel-good solution to a nonproblem.
RETURN TO PROSPERITY Arthur B. Laffer 2010
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And it responded to a nonproblem with a sledgehammer rather than a scalpel.
The Chance for a Free Speech Do-Over Theodore B. Olson 2009
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But this is a nonproblem: Any withdrawal from an HSA is already subject to a federal tax audit, just as individual tax returns are.
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Critics might say it's a solution to a nonproblem, but the SEC doesn't claim to be solving a problem.
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"When I bring up problems like human rights or the question of minorities in America," he explains, "for these young people it's a nonproblem."
A Veteran of the Fighting Irish Stephanie Capparell 2008
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Or maybe you didn't enter the Roiphe echo chamber but just read one of the many recent features that deem acquaintance rape a nonproblem and paint feminists as "neo-Victorian" prudes terrorizing gals with rape tall tales.
Whose Hype? 2008
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But at least they've become nonproblem states -- and far better places for their citizens to live.
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New York Magazine discovers a non-new nonproblem -- and pads the story to death.
Archive 2006-03-01 Ann Althouse 2006
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UPDATE: Howard Bashman responds to this post by recounting an event where judges were fretting about this nonproblem.
Archive 2006-07-01 Ann Althouse 2006
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Stephen K has a long, interesting meditation actually, he may be on medication! about the problem, or nonproblem, of viewpoint diversity.
Archive 2006-08-01 2006
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