nonfactor
English
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- non-factor
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Noun
nonfactor (plural nonfactors)
- Something (or someone) that is not a factor, or does not play a significant role.
- 2008 December 22, Steve Rivera, “Wildcats need bench to become a factor”, in Tucson Citizen[1]:
- Arizona's bench continued to be a nonfactor in many games this season.
- 2022, Chuck Klosterman, The Nineties, New York: Penguin Press, →ISBN:
- [Bill] Clinton’s presidential ascension began at the 1992 Iowa caucuses, where he was a nonfactor who received 2.81 percent of the vote.
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