NONEVENTS Synonyms: 44 Similar and Opposite Words

nonevents

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plural of nonevent

as in bombs

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Noun

Monday's attacks on a shelter and former school with bunker-busting bombs came as people were lined up for aid in Komyshuvakha, a village in the Zaporizhzhia region.

— Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 4 Nov. 2026
Special tools were then used to carry out the delicate operation, and extra caution was exercised to avoid any vibrations while approaching the wreck that may set off the unexploded bombs still inside the wreck.

— Muskan Bhatia, Interesting Engineering, 4 Nov. 2026

Definition of bombs

Noun

Memory and chip firms SanDisk, Western Digital, AMD, Seagate and Micron were the index’s biggest losers, all plunging around 10%.

— Steve Kopack, NBC news, 5 Nov. 2026
The losers would likely prefer to continue attacking their opponents with mud-slinging ads filled with lies.

— Sun Sentinel Editorial Board, Sun Sentinel, 5 Nov. 2026

Definition of losers

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At the same time, as the extreme heat and wildfires this year showed us, climate disasters are taking lives and inflicting economic losses on a scale that governments can no longer afford to ignore.

— Laurence Tubiana, Time, 6 Nov. 2026
Their power persisted despite proliferating school shootings, the devastating failures of the state’s electrical grid, the preventable deaths of pregnant women, and other scandals, disasters, and tragedies.

— Rachel Monroe, New Yorker, 4 Nov. 2026

Definition of disasters

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Add more oil if pot looks dry; arrange 2 large oranges and/or lemons, halved, and 2 heads of garlic, tops trimmed to expose cloves, cut side down in pot and add 3 large shallots, peeled.

— Jesse Szewczyk, Bon Appetit Magazine, 2 Nov. 2026
Rather than lemons into lemonade, Hannah Chody spent much of the past three years turning Golden Peach into Bellini.

— Elizabeth Gulino, Allure, 29 Oct. 2026

Definition of lemons

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The best time to mulch in fall is after the first few frosts but before any hard freezes.

— Karen Brewer Grossman, Southern Living, 4 Nov. 2026
Overnight freezes and morning frosts typically start in October in the City of Trees, according to the Old Farmer’s Almanac.

— Hali Smith October 9, Idaho Statesman, 9 Oct. 2026

Definition of frosts

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Contained within all these fiascoes is a subtly different conservative movement.

— Benjamin Wallace-Wells, New Yorker, 26 Apr. 2026
Trump is the most corrupt and scandal-plagued president since Nixon; indeed, his fiascoes eclipse Nixon’s, but many of them remain mostly or somewhat hidden, thanks in part to a much more acquiescent Republican Congress than the one Nixon had.

— David A. Graham, The Atlantic, 8 Apr. 2026

Definition of fiascoes

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Tracking East Asian origins Beyond artifacts and shipwrecks, the blueprint places considerable emphasis on understanding how ancient human populations emerged, migrated, and adapted to different environments.

— Rupendra Brahambhatt, Interesting Engineering, 1 Nov. 2026
Fatal accidents range from workers getting entangled while cleaning nets to shipwrecks among vessels in the area.

— ABC News, ABC News, 28 Oct. 2026

Definition of shipwrecks

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Since Benson and her co-authors met in Oviedo, weather catastrophes have multiplied, oceans have acidified and the amount of carbon in the atmosphere has soared.

— Katie Worth, ProPublica, 30 Oct. 2026
With that in mind, here’s a look at three new books shaped by catastrophes large and small.

— Lisa Henricksson, Air Mail, 17 Oct. 2026

Definition of catastrophes

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