How to Use nonphysical in a Sentence
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Scott will share with you the details of how to tidy nonphysical clutter from chapter 4 on.
— Marie Kondo, Marie Claire, 6 Apr. 2020 -
Now, her grandson, Vladyslav, 17, has to live with the nonphysical scars of that trauma.
— NBC News, 20 Mar. 2022 -
As if the nonphysical boundaries weren’t enough, a large portion of the show had the band performing behind a semi-sheer curtain.
— Washington Post, 26 Nov. 2019 -
Your challenge can be physical: run a 10K or climb a mountain; or nonphysical: learn to play guitar, take up sewing, or become a great chef.
— oregonlive, 28 Feb. 2020 -
To be clear, the attorneys THR spoke with agree that nonphysical abuse and coercive control are very real problems.
— Ashley Cullins, The Hollywood Reporter, 4 Oct. 2022 -
Trustees Tim Wilson and Kerston Russell hit back at what each called nonphysical threats from the community during debate around the project.
— James T. Norman, chicagotribune.com, 24 Nov. 2021 -
Contacts were sorted by place (home, school, work, leisure) and by nature (physical or nonphysical, brief or longer lasting).
— Jill Neimark, Smithsonian Magazine, 23 Nov. 2020 -
During practice that day, Brown and Mayock got into a nonphysical but heated exchange on the practice field, Rapoport reported.
— Jason Hanna, CNN, 11 Sep. 2019 -
Where Reasons End is set in a nontemporal, nonphysical place.
— Eve Bowen, The New York Review of Books, 5 Mar. 2022 -
There are also four nonphysical commandments of garlic knots.
— Alex Delany, Bon Appetit, 6 Mar. 2017 -
This is the mystery-cloud that floats over the music of Beatrice Dillon, a British composer-producer whose meticulous new album sounds like it was recorded in an impossible, nonphysical no-space.
— Chris Richards, Washington Post, 26 Feb. 2020 -
Now that players can return to campus, they'll be allowed voluntary workouts and up to eight hours of virtual nonphysical activities through July 19.
— Evan Petzold, Detroit Free Press, 18 June 2020 -
After quite a long period of nonphysical contact, the first formal meetings will be pretty agonizing.
— Annabelle Timsit, Quartz, 17 May 2021 -
At age 16, Joy says, a church youth leader in his early 30s groomed and manipulated her into a nonphysical romantic relationship.
— Leslie Goldman, Marie Claire, 28 Oct. 2020 -
Beyond providing tips on how to make the physical space more functional, she, along with her co-author Scott Sonenshein, stresses the importance of decluttering nonphysical items.
— Time, 14 Apr. 2020 -
Then, add nonphysical assets such as investments, bank accounts and insurance policies.
— Scott Nordlund, sandiegouniontribune.com, 21 June 2018 -
This inverse square law, which arises from geometry, is an idealization that strictly applies to nonphysical point masses.
— Quanta Magazine, 5 Dec. 2019 -
Those with an appreciable interest in nonphysical playfulness scored high, and playful adults who were physically active scored the highest.
— Kevin Johnson, Outside Online, 4 May 2022 -
Some think the ascent of tech, with its extraordinary revenue escalation and burgeoning intangible assets—the worth of nonphysical things like data and operating systems, etc.—changed the picture.
— Larry Light, Fortune, 20 Jan. 2022 -
Many law enforcement officers, who often handle domestic violence calls, now receive training on how to identify gender bias and detect nonphysical domestic abuse.
— Susan R. Paisner | Opinion, Anchorage Daily News, 24 Feb. 2018 -
But amortization, the term for depreciating nonphysical assets, was less straightforward.
— Robert Faturechi, ProPublica, 8 July 2021 -
The enchanted synchronicities that fuel mystical rhythms, the nonphysical vibrations that generate magick.
— Aliza Kelly Faragher, Allure, 29 Aug. 2018 -
Thirty-one percent of male fans experienced both physical and nonphysical harassment, according to the survey, and 60 percent of transgender attendeess reported physical homophobic or transphobic violence.
— Jessi Roti, chicagotribune.com, 28 Mar. 2018
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