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Recent Examples of noninfectious
However, several types of infectious and noninfectious meningitis don’t spread from person to person.
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Heidi Moawad, Verywell Health, 18 Jan. 2025
The adjuvant in the University of Houston’s fentanyl vaccine is an enterotoxin, a chemical produced by the bacteria Escherichia coli and modified to be noninfectious.
—Tribune News Service, The Mercury News, 5 Sep. 2024
But the immune system can be trained to make antibodies in response to an opioid like fentanyl through a vaccine that links bits of the drug to noninfectious bits of bacteria and uses substances called adjuvants.
—Tribune News Service, The Mercury News, 5 Sep. 2024
To effectively address noninfectious diseases and design new drugs, scientists need more detailed knowledge of how proteins, especially enzymes, bind small molecules.
—Marc Zimmer, Discover Magazine, 10 June 2024
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Heidi Moawad, Verywell Health, 18 Jan. 2025
The adjuvant in the University of Houston’s fentanyl vaccine is an enterotoxin, a chemical produced by the bacteria Escherichia coli and modified to be noninfectious.
—Tribune News Service, The Mercury News, 5 Sep. 2024
But the immune system can be trained to make antibodies in response to an opioid like fentanyl through a vaccine that links bits of the drug to noninfectious bits of bacteria and uses substances called adjuvants.
—Tribune News Service, The Mercury News, 5 Sep. 2024
To effectively address noninfectious diseases and design new drugs, scientists need more detailed knowledge of how proteins, especially enzymes, bind small molecules.
—Marc Zimmer, Discover Magazine, 10 June 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for noninfectious
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Homicide and nonfatal shooting totals fell again in 2023, but the city was roiled by robbery and carjacking crews responsible for an overall uptick in violence.—
Kori Rumore,
Chicago Tribune,
11 Aug. 2025
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The report shows that healthcare workers face a disproportionately high risk of workplace violence, accounting for 73% of all nonfatal workplace injuries and illnesses due to violence.—
Bryan Robinson,
Forbes.com,
3 Aug. 2025
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Advocates say there are ways around the issue by carefully sourcing nonpoisonous trees that are grown organically and not sprayed with fire retardant.—
Charles Passy,
WSJ,
27 Dec. 2020
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This will give them a chance to exercise this innate behavior with a safe source of nonpoisonous plant life.—
David Shultz,
Science | AAAS,
8 Aug. 2019
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In essence, adaptogens are plants that are nontoxic at regular doses and can help your body return to homeostasis, its natural state of equilibrium.—
JP Shaffer,
Kansas City Star,
5 Aug. 2025
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The unit can be paired with Off the Deck’s nontoxic, biodegradable balls and FunAir’s inflatable golf nets.—
Nicole Hoey,
Robb Report,
10 June 2025
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In the chemical and materials industries, quantum computing could inform the design of more efficient batteries for electric cars and noncorrosive elements for ships.—
Charina Chou,
Foreign Affairs,
7 Jan. 2025
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In the chemical and materials industries, quantum computing could inform the design of more efficient batteries for electric cars and noncorrosive elements for ships.—
Charina Chou,
Foreign Affairs,
7 Jan. 2025
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Using portable X-ray fluorescence, a nondestructive way to identify geochemical fingerprints, the researchers confirmed that the Mexicas were partial to a particular green and golden obsidian to produce items for rituals.—
Ashley Strickland,
CNN Money,
16 May 2025
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The study highlights how important nondestructive X-ray fluorescence spectrometry has become to archaeology, said John Millhauser, associate professor of sociology and anthropology at North Carolina State University.—
Ashley Strickland,
CNN Money,
16 May 2025
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Yet in 2023, USDA’s Wildlife Services devoted less than 1% of its $286-million budget to nonlethal efforts.—
Peter Kareiva,
Mercury News,
3 Aug. 2025
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Multiple journalists have been shot with nonlethal rounds by law enforcement while reporting on protests—some of which escalated to riots—in Los Angeles over President Donald Trump's immigration crackdown in the city.—
Khaleda Rahman,
MSNBC Newsweek,
10 June 2025
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Maybe that’s the lesson the university is actually communicating to its students, beneath whatever charmingly nasal encouragement Kermit doles out on graduation day: to err on the unobjectionable side when things look dicey.—
Callie Holtermann,
New York Times,
28 Mar. 2025
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Many orders can be unobjectionable, such as giving federal employees the day after Christmas off.—
Josh Boak,
Chicago Tribune,
20 Jan. 2025
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There have been 14 missiles fired — 13 were knocked down, and 1 was ‘set free,’ because it was headed in a nonthreatening direction.—
Rachel Wolf,
FOXNews.com,
26 June 2025
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There have been 14 missiles fired — 13 were knocked down, and 1 was 'set free,' because it was headed in a nonthreatening direction.—
Gabe Whisnant,
MSNBC Newsweek,
23 June 2025
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“Noninfectious.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/noninfectious. Accessed 20 Aug. 2025.
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