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- noun Absence of
reaction ; failure toreact .
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Examples
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Their nonreaction is an instance of Situation Ethics.
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Their nonreaction is an instance of Situation Ethics.
Stromata Blog: 2007
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In D'Agosta's experience, that kind of nonreaction was often the strongest reaction of all.
Dance Of Death Preston, Douglas 2005
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He looked a little surprised by my reaction, or nonreaction, or whatever.
At First Sight CATHERINE HAPKA 2010
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This was the factory, planted in our midst, that was essentially blocking American and Western knowledge of the problem and molding its reaction, or nonreaction, to it.
The Coming Revolution Walid Phares 2010
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He looked a little surprised by my reaction, or nonreaction, or whatever.
At First Sight CATHERINE HAPKA 2010
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The nonreaction of the stock market to word of a new bin Laden tape suggests this.
Kerry 55, Bush 45: James Wolcott Wolcott, James, 1952- 2009
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So how do we explain the nation's nonreaction to the legalization of same-sex marriage?
Dan Pashman: Explaining The Nation's Non-Reaction To Gay Marriage 2009
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BOB FRANKEN, CNN NATIONAL CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): The president had the same public reaction to the Iraq prognosis that he's had for weeks, a nonreaction.
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One of the reasons they think this, the main point of Rieff's article, is the reaction or nonreaction of ground troops to certain events, especially in those crucial days right after we arrived in Baghdad.
Archive 2003-11-01 2003
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