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n. - Something that doesn't take place.

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  • An FAA source says the control-tower supervisor classified the April incident as a "" nonoccurrence, '' and the NTSB learned of it from one of the airlines.
  • This would be trivially true if, as some maintain, the nonoccurrence of something intrinsically either good or bad entails the occurrence of something intrinsically neutral.
  • While laws of nature can, and do, formally account for such cases, there is no explanation of E's nonoccurrence in terms of the natural forces that it is usually assumed...
  • A possible asset arising from past events and whose existence will be con - firmed only by the occurrence or nonoccurrence of one or more uncertain future events that...
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