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- adjective Not
reproductive .
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Examples
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If too many adult moa were caught too quickly there would have been no chance of replenishment, and the species, dominated by unreproductive birds, would have been placed under severe pressure.
Archive 2005-06-01 2005
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If too many adult moa were caught too quickly there would have been no chance of replenishment, and the species, dominated by unreproductive birds, would have been placed under severe pressure.
Slow Food? 2005
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A dramatic increase in individual autonomy was bound up, as he convincingly documents, with an intensified anxiety about unsocialized, unreproductive pleasure, pleasure fueled by seductive chimeras ceaselessly generated by the vagrant mind:
Me, Myself, and I Greenblatt, Stephen 2004
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If we are not a valuable product, then we are unproductive and unmarketable, and unreproductive.
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The market has declared that we are unmarketable, unproductive, and unreproductive.
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If we are not a valuable product, then we are unproductive and unmarketable, and unreproductive.
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The market has declared that we are unmarketable, unproductive, and unreproductive.
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It is made up entirely of $1 trillion dollars spent on sex, filthy unreproductive sex!
Gawker 2009
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'Rather than being accumulated, economic surplus is here systematically diverted from reproduction to unreproductive labour.'
Mute magazine - Culture and politics after the net - CULTURE AND POLITICS AFTER THE NET 2008
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