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nonalike en · ADJ

Etymology

From non- + alike.

Meanings

1. Not alike; unalike; dissimilar; different.
   • Things get complex when an organization provides multiple nonalike goods or services that use differing amounts of resources (i.e., almost every health care provider). 2013, John F. Kros, Evelyn C. Brown, Health Care Operations and Supply Chain Management, page 62:
   • It has been argued that such coalescence is a consequence of override, by the mating system, of the self-nonself somatic rejection reaction that is intrinsic between nonalike genotypes (Rayner et al., 1984). 2013, K.C. Marshall, Advances in Microbial Ecology - Volume 10, page 130:
   • We have learned in 25 years that the choice of displacing in-out discretion is a tradeoff between allowing like cases to be treated in nonalike ways with high degrees of individual discretion, and a system that is excessively severe for many, if not most, of its cases. 2001, Franklin Zimring, “The New Politics of Criminal Justice: Of "Three Strikes," Truth-in-Sentencing, and Megan's Laws”, in Perspectives on Crime and Justice: Lecture Series, page 19:

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