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Recent Examples of noninfectious
Despite overall health improvements, chronic noninfectious conditions such as heart disease and cancer rose to become the primary causes of human mortality.
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Ron Barrett, Discover Magazine, 11 May 2024
At the same time, their losses to noninfectious diseases rose at comparable rates.
—Ron Barrett, Discover Magazine, 11 May 2024
Their discoveries have opened up a new chapter in medicine, paving the way for new vaccines for other infectious diseases, including the flu, and treatments for noninfectious diseases such as cancer.
—Katie Hunt, CNN, 2 Oct. 2023
When the incidence of a noninfectious disease changes so quickly — faster than our genomes can possibly accumulate new mutations that increase susceptibility — scientists suspect that changes in the environment are responsible.
—Moises Velasquez-Manoff, New York Times, 4 Oct. 2023
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Ron Barrett, Discover Magazine, 11 May 2024
At the same time, their losses to noninfectious diseases rose at comparable rates.
—Ron Barrett, Discover Magazine, 11 May 2024
Their discoveries have opened up a new chapter in medicine, paving the way for new vaccines for other infectious diseases, including the flu, and treatments for noninfectious diseases such as cancer.
—Katie Hunt, CNN, 2 Oct. 2023
When the incidence of a noninfectious disease changes so quickly — faster than our genomes can possibly accumulate new mutations that increase susceptibility — scientists suspect that changes in the environment are responsible.
—Moises Velasquez-Manoff, New York Times, 4 Oct. 2023
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for noninfectious
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Last week, police responded separately to a fatal shooting at an East Oakland camp and a nonfatal shooting near a large encampment in San Jose.—
Grant Stringer,
The Mercury News,
19 Jan. 2025
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But even with homicides down 20% last year, officials have struggled to explain the reason for that decrease, or the reason that nonfatal shootings and violence overall continues to be on the rise.—
Kendrick Calfee,
Kansas City Star,
17 Jan. 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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The expansion would give the landfill another 10 to 15 years of use in accepting nontoxic household and commercial waste, according to the permit application.—
Tom Sissom,
arkansasonline.com,
8 Jan. 2025
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The safest nontoxic material options for kitchen utensil are wood and stainless steel.—
Karen Garcia,
Los Angeles Times,
19 Dec. 2024
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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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If the clog remains, use a biodegradable, noncorrosive pipe cleaner, or a household cleaner like hydrogen peroxide, to flush out the drain.—
Jessica Bennett,
Better Homes & Gardens,
28 July 2023
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The nondestructive technology resulted in thousands of X-rays of the mummies and their coffins.—
Ashley Strickland,
CNN,
9 Nov. 2024
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Smart Objects make for nondestructive, reusable raster and vector images that update throughout your project.—
PCMAG,
PCMAG,
12 Nov. 2024
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There appeared to be less mass murder than in 2023 and less nonlethal violence in the form of torture, beatings and related force.—
Collin J. Meisel,
The Conversation,
13 Jan. 2025
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Researchers contrasted lion behavior in California and Nevada, the latter of which allows both nonlethal hound pursuit and a legal, limited harvest season.—
Malcolm Brooks Malcolm Hillgartner Krish Seenivasan Zak Mouton,
New York Times,
31 Dec. 2024
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Those changes are unobjectionable and do not do much of anything to violate the historical fabric.—
Christopher Bonanos,
Curbed,
17 Dec. 2024
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While a standard Whiskey Sour is a delightful experience, almost invariably mixed with bourbon and made smooth and unobjectionable with egg white, the Rattlesnake is that same framework but greener.—
Jason O'Bryan,
Robb Report,
12 Oct. 2024
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Her previous recipes have included homemade marmalade, ratatouille, pasta from scratch, and tzatziki dip, which all sound lovely and nonthreatening.—
Li Goldstein,
Bon Appétit,
31 Mar. 2023
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Talk over your concerns with your boss in a nonthreatening and professional way.—
Bryan Robinson,
Forbes,
8 Oct. 2022
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“Noninfectious.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/noninfectious. Accessed 30 Jan. 2025.
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