How to Use nondisabled in a Sentence

nondisabled

adjective

• The rate should be based on a standard with a nondisabled person doing the job.
  — Star Tribune, 24 July 2021
• Disabled people get pregnant and give birth at the same rates as nondisabled ones.
  — Los Angeles Times, 22 Oct. 2021
• Disabled women now get pregnant and give birth at the same rate as nondisabled ones, but modern medicine has turned its back on them.
  — Los Angeles Times, 30 Sep. 2021
• The episode was a platform for the fab five to teach nondisabled audiences about how integral design is to disabled lives and culture.
  — Alex Haagaard, Quartz, 22 July 2019
• For us, life presents more daily challenges than for the average nondisabled person.
  — Alex Montoyacommunity Voices Contributor, San Diego Union-Tribune, 2 Mar. 2023
• Banished was the feel-good narrative about Keller as a brave soul who broke through at the water pump and went on to make nondisabled people feel grateful for their good fortune.
  — Ellen McGirt, Fortune, 15 Nov. 2022
• Here’s a look at how the performers navigate in ways their nondisabled peers never need to consider.
  — Erik Piepenburg, New York Times, 10 July 2017
• In terms of the research and funding, everything is for making life easier for the nondisabled people in the disabled person’s life.
  — Jessica Ferri, Los Angeles Times, 7 Apr. 2022
• Some were offended by Sia’s choice to cast Ziegler, a nondisabled actor, as an autistic character.
  — Laura Zornosa, chicagotribune.com, 23 Nov. 2020
• During the height of lockdown, my nondisabled child’s homework was to connect to another human every day.
  — Aimee Christian, Wired, 20 Feb. 2022
• According to the Kaiser Family Foundation, 41% of nondisabled adults on Medicaid do not have jobs.
  — Peter Cove, WSJ, 4 July 2017
• Maddie Ziegler, a nondisabled actor, portrays a young autistic woman in Sia's upcoming film.
  — Alaina Leary, refinery29.com, 23 Nov. 2020
• And of that 2% representation rate, about 95% of those disabled characters are played by nondisabled actors.
  — Mickey Rowe, Teen Vogue, 8 Aug. 2017
• And a good place to start is how nondisabled people can avoid giving unnecessary offense to people with disabilities.
  — Andrew Pulrang, Forbes, 26 Sep. 2021
• Research shows that disabled characters are overwhelmingly played by nondisabled actors on film and TV.
  — New York Times, 11 Feb. 2021
• The ability to make bad decisions, for nondisabled people, is considered a normal part of the human experience.
  — Sara Luterman, The New Republic, 12 Feb. 2021
• Hiring nondisabled actors also takes away disabled roles from disabled actors.
  — Alaina Leary, refinery29.com, 23 Nov. 2020
• For instance, even though unemployment was high across the country, the majority of nondisabled adults without children were still initially subject to a work requirement.
  — Lola Fadulu, New York Times, 10 Apr. 2020
• Businesses wanted to pay disabled people less money than nondisabled people.
  — Madison Hopkins, ProPublica, 16 Nov. 2022
• Parents of disabled children often carry more weight as experts on disability than disabled people do, and most film and TV roles for disabled characters cast a nondisabled person to portray them.
  — Alaina Leary, refinery29.com, 23 Nov. 2020
• For decades, nondisabled actors have played these characters, which is problematic for several reasons.
  — Christopher Rosa, Glamour, 19 Nov. 2020
• Now, advocates worry that the Trump administration is poised to grant Indiana a long-term extension of the Healthy Indiana expansion — and add a requirement that nondisabled adults work or volunteer 20 hours a week.
  — Phil Galewitz, Washington Post, 1 Feb. 2018
• And worse: These tryborgs make technologies in their own image—white, nondisabled, heterosexual, cisgender, wealthy.
  — The Cyborg Jillian Weise, Wired, 21 Dec. 2021
• Sheltered workshops keep disabled people separate from nondisabled adults.
  — Madison Hopkins, ProPublica, 16 Nov. 2022
• People with disabilities are half as likely to have a high school diploma as their nondisabled counterparts, and the same holds true for bachelors degrees, according to another report from the Bureau of Labor Statistics.
  — Karin Hitselberger, Good Housekeeping, 30 Mar. 2021
• Kentucky’s program would have required nondisabled adults each month to participate in 80 hours of work, job training, education or other volunteer service to remain covered.
  — Phil Galewitz, Washington Post, 29 June 2018
• If the audience is larger than five people, then the audience certainly includes disabled and nondisabled people; whether Deaf or Hearing; neurodivergent or neurotypical; in chronic pain or, for the present, pain-free.
  — Constance Grady, Vox, 12 May 2018
• To make sure everything was portrayed correctly, director Aneesh Chaganty did his research, checked his own privilege as a nondisabled person, and chatted with Allen about her own experiences.
  — Christopher Rosa, Glamour, 19 Nov. 2020
• During the recession of 2009 and its aftermath, the Obama administration removed a time limit that prevented unemployed, nondisabled people without children from receiving food stamps for more than three months in a three-year period.
  — New York Times, 20 Feb. 2020
• South Carolina recently received approval from the Trump administration to impose work requirements on nondisabled adult Medicaid recipients, a change the state estimated would reduce the rolls by as many as 7,100 recipients.
  — Akilah Johnson, ProPublica, 25 Mar. 2020

Last Updated: 28 Aug 2024