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Recent Examples of nonliving
Searching for water vapor rather than just heat, van Breugel and his coauthors point out, could keep the insects from wasting their time on warm but nonliving objects such as dark rocks.
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Elizabeth Preston, Discover Magazine, 21 Aug. 2015
Phosphine, the argument goes, is not generally expected to be produced, or to survive for very long, in the abiotic (nonliving) chemistry anticipated for this part of Venus’s environment.
—Caleb A. Scharf, Scientific American, 5 Oct. 2020
Elizabeth Preston, Discover Magazine, 21 Aug. 2015
Phosphine, the argument goes, is not generally expected to be produced, or to survive for very long, in the abiotic (nonliving) chemistry anticipated for this part of Venus’s environment.
—Caleb A. Scharf, Scientific American, 5 Oct. 2020
Recent Examples of Synonyms for nonliving
inanimate
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Even an inanimate sculpture representing a Black woman gets hit with stereotypical projections.—
Taryn Finley,
Refinery29,
14 May 2025
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That adds individuality to sections of inanimate space.—
Nielsen Dinwoodie,
Forbes.com,
15 Apr. 2025
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“Nonliving.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/nonliving. Accessed 28 May. 2025.
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