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- adjective Not
afflicted .
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Examples
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"We can be unafflicted without being euphoric," he writes.
Be Not of Good Cheer Thomas Meaney 2011
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Amber Smith, a stately beauty from Season Two, seemed more or less unafflicted until we saw her going through detox — jackknifed over the trash can and probing her epiglottis with a long finger.
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Amber Smith, a stately beauty from Season Two, seemed more or less unafflicted until we saw her going through detox — jackknifed over the trash can and probing her epiglottis with a long finger.
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Her husband was going on about family and tests and prevention and the passing of time, life's great eraser, to make way for a future that included healthy children, unafflicted children, a future that would render Jack a mere blip in an otherwise perfectly wonderful life, one worth envying, I assure you.
Jew 2010
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And now, tragically, to make sure no child is left unafflicted, we have according to sociologist Juliet Schor made them our primary marketing target, shaping their psychological lives around "consumer desires," by "tether [ing]" them early on to "products, brands, and the latest trends."
James Block: The Specter Of The Counterculture III: The Land Of False Dreams 2010
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Angus and I, unafflicted by this politeness malady, strike a blow for justice.
Archive 2008-05-01 2008
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Angus and I, unafflicted by this politeness malady, strike a blow for justice.
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In the light of this insight, it is apparent that physical reductionism blinds its proponents to realms of experience that are easily available to those unafflicted by this view.
Two Essays on Mind (Alva Noe and B Alan Wallace) William Harryman 2009
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Some experts question whether the unafflicted should receive such a potent drug.
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The mutation didn't show up in unafflicted members of the same family, nor in 200 healthy individuals from the general population.
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