How to Use nontrivial in a Sentence

nontrivial

adjective
  • To cover the sport is to know of a nontrivial number of players who wouldn’t cross the street to pour water on a fellow pro who erupted in flames.
    New York Times, 16 June 2021
  • This was the first nontrivial answer anybody provided to why the Kelvin wave should exist.
    Katie McCormick, Quanta Magazine, 18 July 2023
  • The likelihood of dying by accident in the U.S. is nontrivial: One in 24 people die this way.
    Rhoda Feng, The New Republic, 6 Apr. 2022
  • The upshot of course is the temporary but nontrivial spike in consumer prices – inflation – that has so many worried right now.
    Robert Hockett, Forbes, 12 Nov. 2021
  • So even if a wealth tax survived a vigorous national debate and made it through Congress, the odds against it getting past the Supreme Court would be nontrivial.
    Geoff Colvin, Fortune, 2 Apr. 2021
  • At least as things currently stand, that’s having a nontrivial effect on emissions.
    David Roberts, Vox, 27 Apr. 2018
  • Building out the infrastructure to run AI models in production and at scale is nontrivial.
    Pete Hanlon, Forbes, 11 Aug. 2022
  • These problems give way to a third one: the sheer unusability for most end users and the nontrivial cost and complexity each service faces when trying to offer MFA.
    Dan Goodin, Ars Technica, 6 May 2022
  • The challenge of writing software that interacts with multiple chains in a safe manner is nontrivial, and only a limited number of tools and techniques can test the soundness of the code.
    Dan Goodin, Ars Technica, 4 Feb. 2022
  • One nontrivial risk that should concern public-health officials is that side effects from Covid shots could make children and parents wary of other vaccines.
    Allysia Finley, WSJ, 20 Mar. 2022
  • To change the ranking to favor true stories over false ones, say, the platforms would need a way to systematically judge everything that gets shared, or at least everything that gets shared a nontrivial amount.
    Gilad Edelman, Wired, 1 Sep. 2021
  • One nontrivial problem with Coon’s theory, and all attempts to make race into an evolutionary unit, is that there is no evidence.
    Alan Goodman, Discover Magazine, 25 June 2020
  • The Jewish people were perversely viewed as plague carriers and spreaders of typhus, and this became a nontrivial contributing reason for the triggering of the Holocaust.
    Gary Stix, Scientific American, 10 Jan. 2019
  • More alarming, so do a nontrivial number of the same Conservatives who ostensibly supported the Cameron-Osborne tax cuts.
    Joseph C. Sternberg, WSJ, 6 July 2017
  • Neither of the pair is going to wind up in centerfield, and shifting to leftfield is a nontrivial matter given Yankee Stadium's asymmetry.
    Jay Jaffe, SI.com, 9 Dec. 2017
  • These fundamental differences mean that before Meta can safely switch all of its platforms to end-to-end encryption, its apps must undergo some nontrivial changes.
    David Thiel, Wired, 3 Dec. 2021
  • While the consensus resides with the Fed, a nontrivial minority of investors are forecasting 3-4 percent inflation and a sharp rise in interest rates.
    William Levin, National Review, 8 Apr. 2021
  • In the world of telecommunications, malicious actors face a nontrivial challenge.
    David Balaban, Forbes, 31 Jan. 2022
  • This implies that there are many, many nontrivial cohomology classes to be uncovered within each moduli space.
    Leila Sloman, Quanta Magazine, 16 Feb. 2023
  • There is a nontrivial chance that following a presidential defeat and a few more developments that are not too difficult to imagine, the Democratic Party could collapse.
    Michael Tomasky, The New York Review of Books, 27 Feb. 2020
  • The manic energy is surely intentional, at least insofar as puberty works up nontrivial surges of eros and frenetic drive that need to get displaced somewhere.
    Jane Hu, The New Yorker, 31 Mar. 2022
  • The attack scenarios the researchers looked at would require hackers to have already mounted successful, nontrivial attacks against user devices or Voatz's systems.
    Lily Hay Newman, Wired, 13 Feb. 2020
  • But few would contest that the relationship between a president and his top employees is a subject of nontrivial global significance.
    Matt Flegenheimer, New York Times, 4 Oct. 2017
  • Returning to the original purpose of my experiment, I was heartened to learn that thousands of users are spending nontrivial amounts of time each day working in a virtual world, as this finding validates some of my predictions from 2016.
    Cal Newport, The New Yorker, 6 Dec. 2021
  • When taken in nontrivial amounts, the mushrooms are powerful, temporarily changing consciousness in profound ways.
    Kevin Matthews, The Denver Post, 17 June 2019
  • For the same reason, cloth masks are considered more eco-friendly—a nontrivial consideration, given mounting concerns about the waste generated during the pandemic.
    Yasmin Tayag, The Atlantic, 4 Oct. 2021
  • There has long been a nontrivial faction of nihilistic white supremacists in American politics, arguably since the nation’s beginnings.
    Seth Masket, Vox, 29 Nov. 2018
  • According to research findings from Check Point, a nontrivial number of developers continued to use the vulnerable library version.
    Dan Goodin, Ars Technica, 4 Dec. 2020
  • First, legislators in Sacramento have already passed a nontrivial number of exemptions for industries hit hardest by the legislation.
    Jeremy Lott, Washington Examiner, 1 Apr. 2021
  • Although the price of an individual virtual currency transaction may be lower, there are still many nontrivial costs necessary to connecting to the digital society.
    Jay L. Zagorsky, The Conversation, 18 June 2019

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