Definitions

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  • noun The absence of a response

Etymologies

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non- +‎ response

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Examples

  • Perhaps we need to change our definition of nonresponse!

    DR. SANJIV CHOPRA’S LIVER BOOK Sanjiv Chopra 2001

  • A nonresponse employing feigned outrage and self-deprecating humor would permit the most ambiguity.

    O: A Presidential Novel Anonymous 2011

  • After the initial shock of their nonresponse, I have to fill time until they leave.

    Harmon Leon: Haunted House A-Boo-Boo Harmon Leon 2011

  • After the initial shock of their nonresponse, I have to fill time until they leave.

    Harmon Leon: Haunted House A-Boo-Boo Harmon Leon 2011

  • A nonresponse employing feigned outrage and self-deprecating humor would permit the most ambiguity.

    O: A Presidential Novel Anonymous 2011

  • I suspected a nonresponse would piss him off, and gee, I was in the mood to tangle with him.

    Mercy Kill Lori Armstrong 2011

  • The feds have to step in to her state due to nonresponse and incompetence, 227 deaths unexplained, violating due process of elderly, frail, disabled people.

    Poll: Obama drops on health care 2009

  • A nonresponse employing feigned outrage and self-deprecating humor would permit the most ambiguity.

    O: A Presidential Novel Anonymous 2011

  • A nonresponse employing feigned outrage and self-deprecating humor would permit the most ambiguity.

    O: A Presidential Novel Anonymous 2011

  • A nonresponse employing feigned outrage and self-deprecating humor would permit the most ambiguity.

    O: A Presidential Novel Anonymous 2011

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