How to Use nontrivial in a Sentence

nontrivial

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• 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
• 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
• Costs associated with labeling legislation are nontrivial, and restrictions on what can be labeled meat could ultimately have the reverse effect desired by the meat industry.
  — Brandon McFadden, The Conversation, 8 Oct. 2019

Last Updated: 18 Sep 2024