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Discover LudwigThe word 'non-renewable' is correct and usable in written English
You can use it to describe natural resources which cannot be replenished or which are depleted faster than they are replaced. For example, "Non-renewable resources such as fossil fuels are becoming increasingly scarce."
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non-renewable
adjective
Alternative spelling of nonrenewable
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(It's a non-renewable resource).
Study rooms are non-renewable.
Oil producers could launder their non-renewable resource into cash.
Mining companies are depleting a non-renewable resource.
Kaberuka defends African countries using non-renewable energy sources.
The length of assignment is one-year (non-renewable).
Appointments are for a non-renewable term of 5 years.
Our consumption rate of non-renewable resources is not sustainable...
Finally, energy wastage depletes non-renewable energy resources.
Until now, it has has been made up by the steady depletion of non-renewable aquifers.
The class experienced first-hand the difference between renewable and non-renewable resources.
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