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Recent Examples of nonstarter
Image And Michael Waltz, the national security adviser, has said the United States was seeking a total dismantling of Iran’s nuclear program, a position Iran has deemed a nonstarter.
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Vivian Nereim, New York Times, 26 Apr. 2025
More to the point, the only serious alternative — raising taxes to pay for regulatory staff — is a political nonstarter.
—Bloomberg Opinion, Twin Cities, 15 Apr. 2025
New dams are a nonstarter because dams have decimated the region’s salmon populations.
—Tony Schick, ProPublica, 12 May 2025
Bringing youth together in the name of peace-building alone would be a nonstarter.
—Lindsey McGinnis, Christian Science Monitor, 1 May 2025
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Vivian Nereim, New York Times, 26 Apr. 2025
More to the point, the only serious alternative — raising taxes to pay for regulatory staff — is a political nonstarter.
—Bloomberg Opinion, Twin Cities, 15 Apr. 2025
New dams are a nonstarter because dams have decimated the region’s salmon populations.
—Tony Schick, ProPublica, 12 May 2025
Bringing youth together in the name of peace-building alone would be a nonstarter.
—Lindsey McGinnis, Christian Science Monitor, 1 May 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for nonstarter
Noun
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But the Phillies are skidding, losers of four in a row.—
Anthony Stitt,
Forbes.com,
2 June 2025
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The seventh-seeded Volunteers advanced to play the loser of Saturday’s Texas Tech vs. UCLA game in an elimination game Sunday.—
Compiled From Wire Reports,
The Orlando Sentinel,
31 May 2025
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Since the most recent online fiasco, Offset has deactivated his social accounts.—
Amber Corrine,
VIBE.com,
4 June 2025
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Not only does Israel not have spare luxury jets lying around to fob off on the American president, but the country took nine years to retrofit and launch its own version of Air Force One, and the process was a national fiasco.—
Yair Rosenberg,
The Atlantic,
22 May 2025
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Elsewhere, Philadelphia is expecting a rainy morning and New York City will have occasional showers through the afternoon, but a washout is not expected today.—
Kenton Gewecke,
ABC News,
21 May 2025
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Or the man who outlasted a near washout at Augusta to win the 2023 Masters in a runaway.—
Brendan Quinn,
New York Times,
19 May 2025
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Similarly, the market-resilience work performed by a lab at the University of California, Davis, offers solutions to farmers and agricultural communities that are vulnerable to intensifying weather disasters.—
Peter Slevin,
New Yorker,
9 June 2025
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Federal database that tracked costly weather disasters no longer being updated How to prepare for an earthquake disaster Huge earthquakes have long been an existential crisis for millions along the West Coast, as described in a 2022 USA TODAY article.—
Terry Collins,
USA Today,
8 June 2025
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But in February, the Paramount+ Trek team suffered a flop with the release of its effort to spin off Michelle Yeoh’s Discovery character Emperor Philippa Georgiou into a streaming film titled Star Trek: Section 31.—
James Hibberd,
HollywoodReporter,
12 June 2025
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The split is a recognition the merger that created Warner Bros. Discovery three years ago was a flop.—
Stephen Battaglio,
Los Angeles Times,
9 June 2025
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The two sides will argue over whether the president has the authority to direct the election commission, which was created by Congress as an independent agency after the Florida ballot debacle during the 2000 presidential election.—
Leah Willingham,
Chicago Tribune,
6 June 2025
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The debacle went down as an era-defining humiliation for Warner Bros., once considered the most artist-friendly outfit in town.—
Zak Cheney-Rice,
Vulture,
2 June 2025
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Time has since passed this flavor by, and the explosion of crunchy health elixirs and proper caffeine bombs leaves this relic of the Clinton era in the dust.—
Pete Cottell,
Wired News,
12 June 2025
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Elon Musk escalates feud with Trump: 'Time to drop the really big bomb' Among the other top DOGE employees to follow were Steve Davis, Musk's top lieutenant who oversaw DOGE's day-to-day operations, publicist Katie Miller and DOGE's top attorney James Burnham.—
Joey Garrison,
USA Today,
10 June 2025
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Step 4: Wipe Down The Microwave Microwave a bowl of water and lemon for two to five minutes.—
Daley Quinn,
Southern Living,
14 June 2025
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The Red Raider cocktail is bourbon, lemon, pomegranate, and orange liqueur, and comes to us from an old printing of the Mr. Boston Official Bartender’s Guide, where it’s reportedly been since at least 1974.—
Jason O'Bryan,
Robb Report,
14 June 2025
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“Nonstarter.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/nonstarter. Accessed 18 Jun. 2025.
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