nonanswer
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nonanswer (plural nonanswers)
- The lack of an answer.
- An answer that is so vague or noncommittal as to be worthless.
- 2024 October 2, Tara Suter, “Nate Silver suggests Walz was ‘sanewashing’ Vance”, in The Hill[2], archived from the original on 28 April 2025:
- “Did Kamala Harris censor Americans from speaking their mind in the wake of the 2020 COVID situation?” Vance continued. Walz called the response “a damning nonanswer.”
- 2026, Gordon Korman, Hypergifted, page 95:
- He was completely disciplined, sticking to his nonanswers. He'd been "around", doing "nothing much", for "a while."
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