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Recent Examples of nonaggressive
The spiders are nonaggressive and bite only in self-defense, such as when someone accidentally sits on them.
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Tim MacWelch, Outdoor Life, 3 May 2023
Unassuming, nonaggressive, close, complicated but not tortured: These are all words that describe the uniquely generous fictions of Louise Erdrich, which are just as concerned with oppression as Sebald’s but told with a completely different attitude toward human relationships.
—Jo Livingstone, The New Republic, 29 Oct. 2021
The other venomous snake native to the state, the northern copperhead, is mostly docile and nonaggressive, choosing to remain still and hidden rather than give away its position.
—Stephen Underwood, Hartford Courant, 26 Aug. 2022
The Minnesota Department of Natural Resources doesn't trap or remove bears with nonaggressive behavior.
—Alex Chhith, Star Tribune, 27 Apr. 2021
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Tim MacWelch, Outdoor Life, 3 May 2023
Unassuming, nonaggressive, close, complicated but not tortured: These are all words that describe the uniquely generous fictions of Louise Erdrich, which are just as concerned with oppression as Sebald’s but told with a completely different attitude toward human relationships.
—Jo Livingstone, The New Republic, 29 Oct. 2021
The other venomous snake native to the state, the northern copperhead, is mostly docile and nonaggressive, choosing to remain still and hidden rather than give away its position.
—Stephen Underwood, Hartford Courant, 26 Aug. 2022
The Minnesota Department of Natural Resources doesn't trap or remove bears with nonaggressive behavior.
—Alex Chhith, Star Tribune, 27 Apr. 2021
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for nonaggressive
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The charismatic but typically unaggressive sea mammals were biting people who approached them.Kyle Melnick The Washington Post, Arkansas Online, 9 July 2023
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Multiple players wound up in first-half foul trouble because of slow legs and unaggressive coverage.Zach Osterman, The Indianapolis Star, 26 Jan. 2023
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The most formidable obstacle to a peaceable refuge was the double-decker section of the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway that hugs the cliff below Brooklyn Heights.Justin Davidson, Curbed, 3 July 2024
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In one study, 18 percent of patients flew, sang, danced, laughed, lectured or enacted other peaceable activities.Diana Kwon, Scientific American, 1 Feb. 2023
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Here a civilian leader is shown in an unwarlike pose, seated, with a thoughtful and resolute expression—an icon of responsibility.Adam Kirsch, WSJ, 1 Oct. 2021
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Hobbits are small and unwarlike, with no interest in glory.Tom Shippey, Fortune, 21 Sep. 2017
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For not wanting to be nonbelligerent by naming the terms for belligerence.Solmaz Sharif, The New Yorker, 21 Feb. 2022
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Over time, such cooperation could gradually acclimate Arab peoples to a nonbelligerent stance toward Israel.Charles Krauthammer, Twin Cities, 30 May 2017
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Headlines daily chronicle war, murder, crime, road rage, social media threats and trivial disputes that turn deadly, which is why the Martin Luther King, Jr. Center for Nonviolent Social Change in Atlanta continues spreading King's teachings on a more irenic way of life.Eliott C. McLaughlin, CNN, 27 Feb. 2022
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In Kennedy’s postwar America, Catholics were viewed more favorably, thanks partly to the irenic pontificate of John XXIII.The Salt Lake Tribune, The Salt Lake Tribune, 20 Apr. 2021
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Trump returns to White House for symbolic meeting President-elect Donald Trump will meet with President Joe Biden today in a symbolic White House ceremony meant to signal the peaceful transfer of power.Elizabeth Robinson, NBC News, 13 Nov. 2024
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The system proved incapable of punishing Trump personally for his concerted, multifaceted refusal to accept his defeat and accept a peaceful transfer of power in 2020.Foreign Affairs, Foreign Affairs, 7 Nov. 2024
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Choose between two rich colors: pacific blue or yarrow gold.Sydney Gore, Architectural Digest, 10 Sep. 2024
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Because roughly half the population there are Seventh-Day Adventists, and their interpretation of the Bible in regards to eating animals is a pacific one.Danny Palumbo / The Takeout, Quartz, 24 Mar. 2024
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Meanwhile Mexico's President Claudia Sheinbaum has maintained a neutral stance regarding the U.S. presidential candidates.Thomas G. Moukawsher, Newsweek, 5 Nov. 2024
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TikTok itself has maintained a neutral stance without voicing support for either candidate.Zeyi Yang, WIRED, 5 Nov. 2024
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“Nonaggressive.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/nonaggressive. Accessed 22 Nov. 2024.
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