How to Use nonlocal in a Sentence

nonlocal

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• The Postal Service aims to deliver local first-class mail in up to two days, and nonlocal mail in three to five days.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 22 Mar. 2021
• The Postal Service aims to deliver local mail in two days and nonlocal mail in three to five days.
  — Author: Jacob Bogage, Hannah Denham, Anchorage Daily News, 27 Feb. 2021
• Theater is both local and nonlocal, and a proper balance needs to be struck.
  — Los Angeles Times, 14 Oct. 2019
• If a bid from a local business is within 10% of a low bid by a nonlocal firm, contracts may be awarded to the certified local business.
  — Katie V. Jones, baltimoresun.com, 12 Aug. 2021
• Physicists broadly agree that black holes require nonlocal effects to make sense.
  — George Musser, Scientific American, 17 Aug. 2022
• At the end of December, only 38 percent of nonlocal first-class mail was delivered on-time, compared with close to 90 percent the year before.
  — Washington Post, 4 Mar. 2021
• The researchers failed to identify any offspring of the nonlocal women, for example.
  — Megan Gannon, National Geographic, 10 Oct. 2019
• During the heart of the holiday shipping season, the agency delivered only 38 percent of nonlocal mail on time.
  — Washington Post, 23 Mar. 2021
• In effect, braiding ensures that the information in Majorana pairs is no longer localized on any of them but is made nonlocal.
  — Quanta Magazine, 29 Sep. 2021
• The Saturday market, criticized by some for selling too much nonlocal produce and Wisconsin cheeses, still sells plenty of Iowa sweet corn, local jam and hot sauce.
  — Melanie D.g. Kaplan / Washington Post, Twin Cities, 20 Aug. 2019
• This balloons the complexity of both the measurements and the mathematical hoops that the scientists must jump through to prove the nonlocal relationship of the three particles.
  — Quanta Magazine, 24 Oct. 2022
• The new seminaries are reported to provide free tuition and living costs for nonlocal students.
  — Arkansas Online, 1 Dec. 2022
• One of the challenges of investing in Brooklyn for nonlocal investors is to realize the opportunity and what is developing at the ground level.
  — Remy Raisner, Forbes, 28 Dec. 2021
• Instead, the agency would lump the category of mail — which includes letters, magazines, catalogs among others — into the same three- to five-day window as nonlocal mail.
  — NBC News, 24 Feb. 2021
• So scientists are left with nonlocal observables, quantities whose values depend on many points at once.
  — Steven Carlip, Scientific American, 1 Dec. 2015
• But these nonlocal funds come with mandates and restrictions with which local authorities must comply.
  — Washington Post, 11 June 2021
• The vacuum state is necessarily nonlocal since the qbits are entangled across our cosmic horizon (the portion of the universe that can be relevant to us as limited by the speed of light), and that region spans 3,000 megaparsecs.
  — Stephon Alexander, Wired, 31 Aug. 2021
• Even if the particles are separated by vast distances, the entangled pair must be regarded as a single, nonlocal object.
  — Philip Ball, Scientific American, 25 Oct. 2022
• Township administrators are asking nonlocal drivers to steer clear of the area if possible.
  — Erin Couch, The Enquirer, 10 July 2022
• Indeed, Giddings has recently been arguing for a nonlocal interaction that transfers bits from the inside of the black hole to a macroscopic distance outside.
  — Sean Carroll, Discover Magazine, 27 Sep. 2012
• But, predictably, experts disagree on whether nonlocal cellular automata bolster the case for free will.
  — John Horgan, Scientific American, 14 Feb. 2021
• The effects lingered into the holiday season when, as coronavirus infections sidelined a significant chunk of the postal workforce, on-time rates for nonlocal mail dropped to 38 percent, a historic low.
  — Washington Post, 19 Nov. 2021
• The plan also says too little road space in the District is dedicated to non-car travel and calls for every nonlocal street in the city to include at least one lane for bicycles, buses or some purpose other than single-occupancy cars.
  — Washington Post, 2 May 2021
• Selling the rights to a Rocky Mountain trout stream or a hayfield dating from the pioneer era to nonlocal interests, especially those seeking to turn a profit, has the potential to be seen as auctioning state patrimony.
  — New York Times, 3 Jan. 2021
• The government in Warsaw has barred all nonlocal residents, including journalists and doctors, from approaching the border.
  — New York Times, 14 Nov. 2021
• More Entanglement, Please In his 2016 paper Slofstra proposed a kind of nonlocal game involving two players who provide answers to simple questions.
  — Quanta Magazine, 5 Mar. 2019
• Only 38 percent of nonlocal first-class mail arrived on time in late December, compared with 92 percent in the year-ago period, according to data reported in federal voting lawsuits.
  — Washington Post, 6 Feb. 2021
• Everything else — the excess energy from the byzantine quantum effects and nonlocal interactions — went into the second half: a fudge factor known as the exchange and correlation functional.
  — Quanta Magazine, 7 Feb. 2022
• The presence of nature, gently tamed, was a reminder that Singapore has almost no agriculture to speak of and must rely heavily on imports; local food is, by necessity, made with nonlocal ingredients.
  — Ligaya Mishan Esther Choi, New York Times, 3 Nov. 2022
• Police directed traffic and nonlocal pedestrians down side streets.
  — Los Angeles Times, 14 June 2022

Last Updated: 24 Jul 2024