nonevents

noun

plural of nonevent
as in bombs

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  1. bombs
  2. losers
  3. disasters
  4. lemons
  5. frosts
  6. fiascoes
  7. shipwrecks
  8. catastrophes
Noun
  • The Afghan Taliban and the Iraqi insurgency beat the United States through roadside bombs and sheer doggedness.
    — Nick Paton Walsh, CNN Money, 17 July 2026
  • Pilots and weapons loaders underwent extensive training to prepare for dropping BDU-50 and BDU-56 practice bombs.
    — Peter Suciu, Forbes.com, 17 July 2026
Definition of bombs
Noun
  • The semifinal losers will try to muster the energy to put on a show in the third-place game on Saturday.
    — Bob Harkins, New York Times, 16 July 2026
  • Carr’s proposal would largely put the FCC in charge of picking winners and losers on a case-by-case basis.
    — Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 15 July 2026
Definition of losers
Noun
  • Polymarket says its platform is a valuable source of information during disasters.
    — Laura Paddison, CNN Money, 17 July 2026
  • Leo had been to hundreds of disasters, mounting life saving operations in earthquakes, floods, landslides.
    — Josh Fox, IndieWire, 17 July 2026
Definition of disasters
Noun
  • Lemons and Salt The citric acid in lemons will break the bond between grease molecules and oven surfaces.
    — Mary Marlowe Leverette, The Spruce, 11 July 2026
  • The number is also up from 670,000 boxes in the 2024-25 growing season, the first year lemons were given their own listing.
    — Jim Turner, Sun Sentinel, 10 July 2026
Definition of lemons
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  • These events, along with floods, drought and late-spring frosts are all worrisome and can adversely affect crops throughout the year.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 8 July 2026
  • Work boots lacked traction, which isn’t ideal when playing on British turf often muddied by rain or slicked by winter frosts.
    — Mack DeGeurin, Popular Science, 2 July 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
Noun
  • For centuries, the only wood suitable for building houses on the island was the driftwood that washed up from shipwrecks and distant forests.
    — Amelia Soth, JSTOR Daily, 15 July 2026
  • Diving With a Purpose, an underwater-archeology program committed to uncovering these slave shipwrecks, encouraged Baxter to start diving for history.
    — Amara Evering, Miami Herald, 11 July 2026
Definition of shipwrecks
Noun
  • Prominent voices fear that the end result of the transformative technology is a job bloodbath and national security catastrophes, while others believe a new era of productivity is ready to be unlocked, with society living longer and healthier lives.
    — Eleanor Pringle, Fortune, 3 July 2026
  • Healthcare registers the effects of climate catastrophes, ecosystem failures and food shortages that also fuel political and social crises.
    — Ginny Whitelaw, Forbes.com, 1 July 2026
Definition of catastrophes
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