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Recent Examples of nonstarter
There’s always the option to sit out altogether, but that’s a nonstarter for the former congressman.
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Eleanor Dearman,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
27 May 2026
For institutional balance sheets, an unlicensed or nonauditable data feed can be a nonstarter, hindering adoption.
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Mike Cahill,
Forbes.com,
18 May 2026
New York’s participation in the scholarship program is a nonstarter for the state’s and city’s teachers unions, who contend the program takes students and public dollars away from local public schools.
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Cayla Bamberger,
New York Daily News,
11 May 2026
Giving control of the region’s oldest youth hockey organization, founded in 1964, to a for-profit company was a nonstarter, said Amanda Rose, a board member.
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Kenny Jacoby,
USA Today,
7 May 2026
See All Example Sentences for nonstarter
Eleanor Dearman,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
27 May 2026
For institutional balance sheets, an unlicensed or nonauditable data feed can be a nonstarter, hindering adoption.
—
Mike Cahill,
Forbes.com,
18 May 2026
New York’s participation in the scholarship program is a nonstarter for the state’s and city’s teachers unions, who contend the program takes students and public dollars away from local public schools.
—
Cayla Bamberger,
New York Daily News,
11 May 2026
Giving control of the region’s oldest youth hockey organization, founded in 1964, to a for-profit company was a nonstarter, said Amanda Rose, a board member.
—
Kenny Jacoby,
USA Today,
7 May 2026
See All Example Sentences for nonstarter
Recent Examples of Synonyms for nonstarter
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The losers are the automakers still leaving accessories to the dealer, where the margin quietly bleeds away.
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That is a big risk investors take when trying to find the winners and losers within the biotech sector.
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There were missteps for Arista along the way, including the Milli Vanilli fiasco of the late 1980s, but the label would become a destination where artists would revive their careers after commercial step-backs or dormancy.
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If only the look from the outside-in had measured up the same way instead of descending into a fiasco as thousands faced infuriating delays getting to the stadium.
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Today will not be a washout, but showers could have an impact on afternoon plans.
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Overnight rainfall coupled with the arrival of storms Saturday means the region could see a washout.
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Rodríguez said numerous public officials died in the disaster, including security personnel, municipal employees and military officers.
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The Boyle Heights blaze, similar to the Eaton and Palisades fires, has revealed the region’s air monitoring can’t always tell people what they’ve been exposed to in a disaster.
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Days before the five-year anniversary of the 2021 building collapse that killed 98 people in Surfside, the federal government has published findings that determined the structure of the Champlain Towers South condominium started failing about three weeks before the catastrophe.
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Chile introduced a tax deduction for catastrophe insurance premiums and resilience retrofit investment.
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John Wilson/Netflix ©2026 Netflix is going to throw away money on blockbuster critical flops anyway.
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Trade the tricorn hats, bonnets and homespun shirts for flip flops, sneakers and soccer jerseys, and the intrepid revolutionaries of 1776 would have looked a lot like the people of 2026.
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The housing debacle was one of several times recently that Trump suddenly threw a wrench in Republican leaders’ plans.
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This debacle is the subject of The Drive‘s latest YouTube video, hosted by my friend (and boss) Kyle Cheromcha.
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Instead, Marsh’s bomb opened the flood gates for the Phillies to score eight runs in the top of the ninth inning to absolutely stun the Nationals and its home crowd in a miraculous 14-9 victory on Tuesday night.
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Both in the Broadhurst Theatre and on The Tonight Show, the number is a total joy bomb.
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“Nonstarter.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/nonstarter. Accessed 6 Jul. 2026.
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