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- adjective Not
spoken .
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Examples
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I have always followed these experiments avidly, always cheering for the animals as they use these nonspoken languages to ask and answer questions, refer to objects present and absent, invent new words, and reveal their emotions.
Birdology Sy Montgomery 2010
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Nukes are the fact of electrical life in this state and others, often in the nonspoken world of, "they are there but we don't talk about them."
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District B13 is familiar with the company's inexplicable decision to include only English SDH subtitles, so that a viewer wishing to listen to the original soundtrack but not fluent in French must also endure on-screen narration of every nonspoken sound.
Home Theater Forum Edwin-S 2010
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