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  • adjective Not of or pertaining to terrorism.

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non- +‎ terror

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Examples

  • QUESTION: Are you going to take nonterror related questions?

    CNN Transcript Jan 7, 2010 2010

  • The Terrorist Screening Center, created in 2003, manages 950,000 names on the consolidated terror watch list, but doesn't track people wanted for questioning for nonterror investigations.

    Europe Bristles at U.S. Security Evan Perez in Washington 2008

  • In a campaign tour of New Hampshire town meetings, he used the word “socialism” so often that it crowded out the old nonterror-related record-holder, “Ronald Reagan.”

    Archive 2007-08-01 2007

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