borrowing

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And, even if such nongrowing foods were contaminated, the radioactive material could be able to be washed away.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 17, 2011

Years of nongrowing, from being a seventeen-year-old, smooth-faced idealist hunched over a book in his Harlem apartment, to becoming a smooth-faced veteran of twenty hunched over a beer in a post exchange.

From "Bad Boy" by Walter Dean Myers