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Adjective
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People who knew Zhang described him to police as a nonassertive man who avoided conflict and typically acquiesced to his wife.
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Those who saw an assertive ad chose to allocate $7 of the gift card to the brand on average, compared with $14 for those who saw a nonassertive ad.
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The former is quietly involving: unhurried, unemphatic, observant.
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The beat is steady and usually unemphatic; the song circles through three chords again and again.
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The humidity lifts, replaced by bright, mild days made for the historic streets of Savannah and Charleston, or the maritime forests and salt marshes beyond them.
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Scattered over the top were generous pebbles of queso panela, mild, milky and squeaky like halloumi.
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“Nonemphatic.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/nonemphatic. Accessed 3 Jul. 2026.
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