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- noun A
situation which,contrary toexpectation ,turned out to beuninteresting ,unimportant orunexciting ; ananticlimax .
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Examples
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Or will the loss of AAA status be a near-term non-event, but become a date highlighted in history-textbook timelines tracking America's slow decline?
Would a Credit Downgrade Matter? David Wessel 2011
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OXFORD, UK -- The death of Osama bin Laden, as an icon and symbol of terrorism, is all but a non-event for the world's Muslims.
Nathan Gardels: The Arab Spring After Osama: Ayaan Hirsi Ali vs. Tariq Ramadan Nathan Gardels 2011
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The recent local troubles with the shootout was kind of a non-event for most of us here.
Page 2 2009
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I only hope the whole thing goes the way of the Asian Bird Flu and fizzles out from a media-fuelled panic attack into a non-event very quickly.
Swine flu at Ground Zero (Mexico City): life in a masked city 2009
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The H1N1 virus has been a non-event for my partner and I.
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Yesterdays quake was kind of a non-event at this distance from the epicenter.
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It did, however, a non-event, set a chain of reactions in motion.
This Was Called War at One Time Ann Bogle 2011
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OXFORD, UK -- The death of Osama bin Laden, as an icon and symbol of terrorism, is all but a non-event for the world's Muslims.
Nathan Gardels: The Arab Spring After Osama: Ayaan Hirsi Ali vs. Tariq Ramadan Nathan Gardels 2011
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David Bauer, the commanding officer of the USS Oak Hill, said that Gaeta and Snell's kiss would largely be a non-event and the crew's reaction upon learning who was selected to have the first kiss was positive.
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Yesterdays quake was kind of a non-event at this distance from the epicenter.
bilby commented on the word non-event
Hello, random word. I was expecting something better.
November 16, 2015