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  • noun Plural form of nonveteran.

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Examples

  • But cases of veterans who lie about having earned awards, and nonveterans who lie about having served valiantly, are growing.

    Media Coverage August 2009 2010

  • Astonishingly, veterans in prison are serving longer average sentences than nonveterans for the same offenses.

    Daniel Robelo: Veterans: Casualties of the Drug War 2009

  • But that year the OCU law school began by flunking people who were white, male, able-bodied, native born nonveterans.

    Think Progress » Loyalty to Bush is this Administration’s Affirmative Action Policy 2006

  • Some analysts have argued that there are clear differences between veterans and nonveterans in attitudes toward the use of American military power.

    June 2006 2006

  • William Bianco, professor of political science at Indiana University, said his study on voting patterns showed that, "in the main, veterans look like nonveterans in Congress, on any dimension we can measure."

    June 2006 2006

  • In 1992 Derwinski, a GOP appointee, proposed opening up three rural and underused VA hospitals to nonveterans.

    Out Of The Line Of Fire 2008

  • The sex-crime incarceration rate for nonveterans is 9% of 1,390 per 100,000, or 125 per 100,000.

    From the WSJ Opinion Archives James Taranto 2007

  • The incarceration rate for veterans is 630 per 100,000, compared to 1,390 per 100,000 for nonveterans.

    From the WSJ Opinion Archives James Taranto 2007

  • Veterans, then, are far more law-abiding, both in terms of sex crimes and nonsex crimes, than nonveterans, once we adjust for the sex ratio.

    From the WSJ Opinion Archives James Taranto 2007

  • To us nonveterans, veterans for war sometimes seem like a hostile and exclusive club.

    Veterans for Impeachment 2006

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