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- adjective Not
threatened ;safe .
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Examples
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Not choosing -- hoping the world will go away -- hoping those with whom we compete who are choosing will somehow leave our markets alone or our economic prospects unthreatened, is the ultimate irresponsibility, the most serious possible dereliction of duty.
National Unity 1991
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Only if your children are unthreatened by failure will they be willing to take risks because, by their very nature, risks increase the likelihood of failure.
Dr. Jim Taylor: Freak Out or Geek Out?: Children's Emotional Reactions to Achievement Dr. Jim Taylor 2012
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He knows himself to be someone who has already lost that for which he was fighting: time — real time, unthreatened and not offered on sufferance — with his daughter, his only child, during her childhood.
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Like Keith Richards, who says he looks the way he does so that we don't have to, French spends several days of the week holed up in subterranean Soho so that we might get on with our lives unthreatened by the monster that is the movies.
I Found it at the Movies: Reflections of a Cinephile by Philip French – review 2011
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He knows himself to be someone who has already lost that for which he was fighting: time — real time, unthreatened and not offered on sufferance — with his daughter, his only child, during her childhood.
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He knows himself to be someone who has already lost that for which he was fighting: time — real time, unthreatened and not offered on sufferance — with his daughter, his only child, during her childhood.
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So far, I think, stodgy orthodoxy remains unthreatened.
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Only if your children are unthreatened by failure will they be willing to take risks because, by their very nature, risks increase the likelihood of failure.
Dr. Jim Taylor: Freak Out or Geek Out?: Children's Emotional Reactions to Achievement Dr. Jim Taylor 2012
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He knows himself to be someone who has already lost that for which he was fighting: time — real time, unthreatened and not offered on sufferance — with his daughter, his only child, during her childhood.
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Only if your children are unthreatened by failure will they be willing to take risks because, by their very nature, risks increase the likelihood of failure.
Dr. Jim Taylor: Freak Out or Geek Out?: Children's Emotional Reactions to Achievement Dr. Jim Taylor 2012
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