Definitions
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- adjective that can not be renewed
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Examples
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It must really irk you guys that Mccain and bush pretty much agree with the democrats on illegal immigration. and you are scared dems will destroy oil companies? wont unrenewable fossil fuels do the job anyways?
Duck, It's Hillary! 2008
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You can't put any more unrenewable resources on to it.
Margaret Atwood interview: 'Go three days without water and you don't have any human rights. Why? Because you're dead' Robert McCrum 2010
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I would like to see more use of existing technologies like hybrid fuel cells for automobiles and less dependency on unrenewable fossil fuels.
Think Progress » Columnist Grossly Distorts Study To Argue ‘We Can’t Do Much’ About Global Warming 2006
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And the mostly foreign corportate ownership of unrenewable natural resources, as usual!!!
Archive 2006-03-01 jen 2006
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And the mostly foreign corportate ownership of unrenewable natural resources, as usual!!!
"getting to know jen..." jen 2006
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Many of these would not grant one dollar for the aid of that commerce on which the revenues of the country and their own real prosperity and wealth depended; but they were willing to suffer long and bleed freely at the old and just, though unrenewable war-cry: "The British and the Hessians."
Ocean Steam Navigation and the Ocean Post Thomas Rainey
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Every heightening of emotion produced for her a new effusion of beauty in visible things, and with it the sense that such moments should be lingered over and absorbed like some unrenewable miracle.
The Reef; a novel 1912
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Jackson and; lack of equipment; advantages; conscription; munitions; relations with Federals at Vicksburg; Army of Northern Virginia; unrenewable wastage; number of troops (1865); Lee's farewell to
Captains of the Civil War; a chronicle of the blue and the gray William Charles Henry Wood 1905
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But the corresponding wastage on the Southern side was unrenewed and unrenewable.
Captains of the Civil War; a chronicle of the blue and the gray William Charles Henry Wood 1905
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Every heightening of emotion produced for her a new effusion of beauty in visible things, and with it the sense that such moments should be lingered over and absorbed like some unrenewable miracle.
The Reef Edith Wharton 1899
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