unaggressive

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Recent Examples of unaggressive Meanwhile, dogs that lose fights or are seen as unaggressive are killed, oftentimes in heinous fashion, with many cases involving dogs being electrocuted, hung or beaten to death. Christopher Cann, USA TODAY, 8 Mar. 2025 Time flowed differently, and my vision felt soft and the world around me pure and unaggressive. Gary Shteyngart, The New Yorker, 27 Jan. 2025 The charismatic but typically unaggressive sea mammals were biting people who approached them. Kyle Melnick The Washington Post, Arkansas Online, 9 July 2023
Recent Examples of Synonyms for unaggressive
Adjective
  • For one, China has long stood out for its nonaggressive nuclear doctrine.
    Caitlin Talmadge, Foreign Affairs, 15 Oct. 2018
  • Never run or make any loud noises or sudden movements, as this could startle these creatures, which are typically nonaggressive until frightened.
    Madeline Nguyen, The Arizona Republic, 22 Mar. 2024
Adjective
  • These methods can provide passive cash flow with proper risk management.
    Gianluca Sidoti, Forbes, 21 Mar. 2025
  • But the common perception that international players can’t use NIL at all is wrong: Their NIL income just has to be passive income—the T-shirt sales allow the overseas portion of the Lions’ roster to benefit as well.
    Brendan Coffey, Sportico.com, 20 Mar. 2025
Adjective
  • Trump’s animosity toward the First Amendment also extended to its guarantee of peaceable assembly.
    Scott Nover, TIME, 5 Mar. 2025
  • For decades in the United States, scientists and government officials have coexisted in a mostly peaceable and productive symbiosis.
    Katherine J. Wu, The Atlantic, 14 Feb. 2025
Adjective
  • Francis' feeble voice, discernible through his labored breaths and in his native Spanish, was recorded Thursday from the hospital and broadcast to the faithful in St. Peter's Square who had gathered for the nightly recitation of the rosary prayer.
    arkansasonline.com, arkansasonline.com, 7 Mar. 2025
  • When experienced all at once, these features can further shake an emerging adult’s already feeble sense of stability.
    Mark Travers, Forbes, 23 Feb. 2025
Adjective
  • 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
  • Hobbits are small and unwarlike, with no interest in glory.
    Tom Shippey, Fortune, 21 Sep. 2017

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“Unaggressive.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/unaggressive. Accessed 31 Mar. 2025.

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