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  • noun That which is not a statement.

Etymologies

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non- +‎ statement

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Examples

  • "It was a nonstatement, nonsensical statement, and didn't make any sense at all that she would suggest that those talks could go forward as long as the Syrians conducted themselves as a prime state sponsor of terror," he said on Rush Limbaugh's radio show. link A "dunderhead."

    From On High 2007

  • It begins when British member of Parliament and Cabinet minister Simon Foster (Tom Hollander) does something no government official is supposed to do: He uses words to make a statement, instead of a vague nonstatement.

    Tucson Weekly 2009

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