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- adjective Not
theoretical .
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Examples
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But earth-change events have the nontheoretical capacity to sooner, more widely and with more certainty, wreak far greater havoc.
Early Warning Funding Plays Second Fiddle To Climate Change 2010
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But earth-change events have the nontheoretical capacity to sooner, more widely and with more certainty, wreak far greater havoc.
Catastrophes Play Second Fiddle To Climate Change Mark Mills 2010
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If fighting malaria was his real goal, he could as easily have asked the question: Why don't we divert to it some of the large and nontheoretical sums spent on, say, the military?
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But ecology as generally practiced was still a loose-jointed, descriptive, nonquantified, nontheoretical enterprise.
The Song of The Dodo David Quammen 2004
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But ecology as generally practiced was still a loose-jointed, descriptive, nonquantified, nontheoretical enterprise.
The Song of The Dodo David Quammen 2004
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The Bible, as Western civilization's principal reli - gious book, illustrates the pervasiveness of unself - conscious imagery — only later to be distinguished as metaphor — in primary or nontheoretical religious dis - course.
Dictionary of the History of Ideas FREDERICK FERR 1968
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Over the course of time this nontheoretical approach developed into a distinctive American life-style—one characterized by a naive practicality that enabled Americans to unite in a stable way of life and to become a homogeneous society made up of undifferentiated men sharing the same values.
Interpretations of American History Gerald N. Grob 1967
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Over the course of time this nontheoretical approach developed into a distinctive American life-style—one characterized by a naive practicality that enabled Americans to unite in a stable way of life and to become a homogeneous society made up of undifferentiated men sharing the same values.
Interpretations of American History Gerald N. Grob 1967
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But I'm talking about practical, nonabstract, nontheoretical stuff over here.
Someone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town Cory Doctorow
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Weiss draws on scores of interviews and vignettes with highly successful consultants to offer nontheoretical, pragmatic advice on living a balanced life, including how to:
AvaxHome RSS: 2008
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