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Recent Examples of nonselective
Use a nonselective herbicide that allows sodding after the unwanted grass is controlled.
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Tom MacCubbin, Orlando Sentinel, 14 Dec. 2024
There are two categories of beta blockers: selective, which affect your heart rate; and nonselective, which affect blood vessels throughout the body.
—Aviel Kanter, Glamour, 10 Mar. 2025
Use a nonselective herbicide that allows sodding after the unwanted grass is controlled.
—Tom MacCubbin, Orlando Sentinel, 14 Dec. 2024
Celebrex is a selective COX-2 inhibitor that targets inflammation with fewer gastrointestinal side effects, whereas ibuprofen is a nonselective NSAID that inhibits COX-1 and COX-2 enzymes.
—T'keyah Bazin, Pharmd, Verywell Health, 11 Sep. 2024
The other option is to use a nonselective herbicide that allows resodding after use to kill everything and resod.
—Tom MacCubbin, Orlando Sentinel, 15 June 2024
In New York, the vast majority of students attend nonselective schools.
—Troy Closson, New York Times, 18 Oct. 2023
The other option is to use a nonselective weed killer like Hi-Yield Killzall.
—Chris McKeown, The Enquirer, 5 Aug. 2023
This is why the best way to eliminate weeds is to spray them with a nonselective weed killer, such as Hi-Yield Killzall.
—Chris McKeown, The Enquirer, 29 July 2023
Tom MacCubbin, Orlando Sentinel, 14 Dec. 2024
There are two categories of beta blockers: selective, which affect your heart rate; and nonselective, which affect blood vessels throughout the body.
—Aviel Kanter, Glamour, 10 Mar. 2025
Use a nonselective herbicide that allows sodding after the unwanted grass is controlled.
—Tom MacCubbin, Orlando Sentinel, 14 Dec. 2024
Celebrex is a selective COX-2 inhibitor that targets inflammation with fewer gastrointestinal side effects, whereas ibuprofen is a nonselective NSAID that inhibits COX-1 and COX-2 enzymes.
—T'keyah Bazin, Pharmd, Verywell Health, 11 Sep. 2024
The other option is to use a nonselective herbicide that allows resodding after use to kill everything and resod.
—Tom MacCubbin, Orlando Sentinel, 15 June 2024
In New York, the vast majority of students attend nonselective schools.
—Troy Closson, New York Times, 18 Oct. 2023
The other option is to use a nonselective weed killer like Hi-Yield Killzall.
—Chris McKeown, The Enquirer, 5 Aug. 2023
This is why the best way to eliminate weeds is to spray them with a nonselective weed killer, such as Hi-Yield Killzall.
—Chris McKeown, The Enquirer, 29 July 2023
Recent Examples of Synonyms for nonselective
unselective
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The kind of person, in other words, who these days tends to start a college career—typically at an unselective school—but all-too-often ends up dropping out.—
Razib Khan,
Discover Magazine,
7 Sep. 2012
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The cult film Idiocracy (2006) imagines a future in which Americans' mental capacities have been degraded by generations of pop culture, junk food, and–how to put this delicately–unselective breeding.—
Samuel Goldman,
The Week,
1 Mar. 2022
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“Nonselective.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/nonselective. Accessed 18 May. 2025.
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