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- verb Present participle of
nonplus .
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Examples
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Makes a great albeit potentially nonplussing gift!
Archive 2007-11-01 Matthew Guerrieri 2007
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Makes a great albeit potentially nonplussing gift!
Lieder eines fahrenden Gesellen Matthew Guerrieri 2007
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Religious perspectives that don't fall into that definition are so nonplussing to many atheists, so like fundamentalists they deny that there can possibly be any legitimacy to such perspectives.
Why Liberal Christianity Isn't Bankrupt James F. McGrath 2009
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He received visitors with the graciousness of the courteous head of a department, who resigns himself to listen to demands, allowing them to talk as he smiled faintly, and nonplussing them by his calmness.
Une Vie 2003
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He received visitors with the graciousness of the courteous head of a department, who resigns himself to listen to demands, allowing them to talk as he smiled faintly, and nonplussing them by his calmness.
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While distinctly nonplussing, the current situation failed to qualify.
The False Mirror Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 1992
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While distinctly nonplussing, the current situation failed to qualify.
The False Mirror Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 1992
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Dismissing this nonplussing phase, I turned to the subject of the gem once more.
The Paternoster Ruby Charles Edmonds Walk
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Our higher officials are fond as a rule of nonplussing their subordinates; the methods to which they have recourse to attain that end are rather various.
Chapter XII 1917
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Poindexter, and presents one feature which may occasion you no surprise, but which, I own, came near nonplussing me.
The Circular Study Anna Katharine Green 1890
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