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  1. non-starternoun

    Someone or something who was listed to start in a race, but did not start in the race.

  2. non-starternoun

    Something that is not going to happen.

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of non-starter in Chaldean Numerology is: 2

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of non-starter in Pythagorean Numerology is: 9

Examples of non-starter in a Sentence

  1. Nancy Pelosi:

    It is unlikely that any one of these provisions alone would pass the House, and taken together, they are a non-starter.

  2. Matt Damon:

    You guys did it here in one fell swoop and I wish that could happen in my country, but it’s such a personal issue for people that we cannot talk about it sensibly, people get so emotional that even when you make a suggestion about not selling AK-47s to people on terror watch lists, that’s a non-starter.

  3. Nancy Pelosi:

    It doesn’t take much to know that you shouldn't be putting whole bills like that, which you know the president is going to veto, in that bill, that is a non-starter.

  4. Nancy Pelosi:

    We were optimistic that he might ... open up government so we could have this discussion, but then we heard what the particulars were in it and it was a non-starter, unfortunately.

  5. Adam Schiff:

    Look, if Harry Truman couldn't nationalize the steel industry during wartime, this President doesn't have the power to declare an emergency and build a multibillion dollar wall on the border, so that's a non-starter.


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