Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Characterized by either a complete response or by a total lack of response or effect, as in neurological action above a threshold.
- adjective All-or-nothing.
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- adjective occurring completely or not occurring at all
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Examples
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For example, the all-or-none proposition of owning a stock or a bond doesn't sit equally well with every investor.
Brendan Moynihan: Wall Street Business Model as Financial Origami Brendan Moynihan 2011
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For example, the all-or-none proposition of owning a stock or a bond doesn't sit equally well with every investor.
Brendan Moynihan: Wall Street Business Model as Financial Origami Brendan Moynihan 2011
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If this is not an all-or-none group, the explanation should be interesting.
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CONS: Early volumes have problems with jarring perspective changes; Worldbuilding often uses infodumping rather than in-narrative elements; The story isn't well segmented into individual novels, leaving readers with an all-or-none decision.
March 2010 2010
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For example, the all-or-none proposition of owning a stock or a bond doesn't sit equally well with every investor.
Brendan Moynihan: Wall Street Business Model as Financial Origami Brendan Moynihan 2011
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NuStar's benefits are generous even within the well-paying energy sector: The petroleum and asphalt transportation and storage company has a no-layoff policy, has an all-or-none bonus policy and offers use of the corporate jet for emergencies.
Luring Talent With Perks Emily Glazer 2011
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CONS: Early volumes have problems with jarring perspective changes; Worldbuilding often uses infodumping rather than in-narrative elements; The story isn't well segmented into individual novels, leaving readers with an all-or-none decision.
REVIEW: Kay Kenyon's The Entire and The Rose (Books 1 - 4) 2010
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The region along the spectrum where abiotic transitions to biotic is a zone of ambiguity that exists because life is not an all-or-none phenomenon, and because the stuff of life is the same as the stuff of non-life.
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Hemispheric specialization, Sperry concluded, is not an “all-or-none” phenomenon.
Be Excellent at Anything Tony Schwartz 2010
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If this is not an all-or-none group, the explanation should be interesting.
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