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as in titular
being something in name or form only
he was the nominal head of state—everyone knew the country was actually run by one of his advisers
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as in slight
so small or unimportant as to warrant little or no attention
when you pay $400 for an airline ticket, a ticketing fee of five dollars seems nominal
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Recent Examples of nominal
Todd Gordon, CNBC, 17 Dec. 2024
State officials say that a nominal fee someone pays for a private milk club membership isn't enough to allow the sales.
—Rick Barrett, Journal Sentinel, 12 Dec. 2024
The price tag for electronic travel authorizations might be nominal, but the inconvenience of being turned away at the airport—or forced to reschedule an entire trip—could be significant.
—Andy J. Semotiuk, Forbes, 12 Dec. 2024
And while digital prints are a nominal cost, bringing back a title in 70mm or 35mm means sourcing prints and projectors and sometimes hiring projectionists, putting even greater pressure on marketing to deliver awareness.
—Ethan Shanfeld, Variety, 11 Dec. 2024
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If on the other hand the real yield of treasuries are falling (either from falling nominal yields or an increasing expectation of coming inflation) then gold becomes more attractive.
—Todd Gordon, CNBC, 17 Dec. 2024
State officials say that a nominal fee someone pays for a private milk club membership isn't enough to allow the sales.
—Rick Barrett, Journal Sentinel, 12 Dec. 2024
The price tag for electronic travel authorizations might be nominal, but the inconvenience of being turned away at the airport—or forced to reschedule an entire trip—could be significant.
—Andy J. Semotiuk, Forbes, 12 Dec. 2024
And while digital prints are a nominal cost, bringing back a title in 70mm or 35mm means sourcing prints and projectors and sometimes hiring projectionists, putting even greater pressure on marketing to deliver awareness.
—Ethan Shanfeld, Variety, 11 Dec. 2024
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James Griffiths directs the comedy, which is set on the fictional titular Welsh island.Samantha Bergeson, IndieWire, 16 Jan. 2025
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Outside of late-night, Uecker co-starred for six seasons on the sitcom Mr. Belvedere, playing sportswriter and father George Owens, who employed the titular butler.Daniel Kreps, Rolling Stone, 16 Jan. 2025
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California saw a slight decrease in unemployment from October to November 2024, according to the most recent data from the U.S. Department of Labor.Kevin Lynn, Newsweek, 8 Jan. 2025
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With a new host and a relatively politics-free show, this year’s Golden Globe Awards drew 9.3 million viewers, a slight decline compared to 2024, according to Nielsen data.Samantha Masunaga, Los Angeles Times, 7 Jan. 2025
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First Acts: From the symbolic to the substantive, here is a look at what nine new governors elected last year have done in their first weeks in office.Maggie Astor, New York Times, 30 Jan. 2023
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With his substantive, agreeably granular bass, David Grogan gave prophetic warnings real authority.Dallas News, Dallas News, 23 Dec. 2022
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His book value is now negligible, meaning any prospective fee would represent pure profit.James Horncastle, The Athletic, 10 Jan. 2025
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Advertisement In all three of those areas, faults in the days leading up to the fires were negligible, with only a few occurring.Noah Goldberg, Los Angeles Times, 10 Jan. 2025
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For what’s known as PM2.5 pollution, or tiny inhalable particles of smoke and dust, a PurpleAir sensor located south of Los Angeles International Airport simultaneously returned on Monday an air quality index of 28 on AirNow’s website, 20 on WatchDuty, and 5 on PurpleAir’s official page.Paresh Dave, WIRED, 16 Jan. 2025
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Despite their immense size, these gentle giants are filter feeders, primarily consuming plankton, small fish, and other tiny organisms by swimming with their mouths open to filter food from the water.Melissa Cristina Marquez, Forbes, 16 Jan. 2025
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But the smoke is still rising, and petty partisanship is a distraction and disservice at the moment, given all that’s been lost, and all the hard work of moving forward.Steve Lopez, Los Angeles Times, 10 Jan. 2025
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In an era of steadily declining trust in media, the dry formalities of a legal template provide not only an imprimatur of institutional credibility, but also the freedom to go into extreme amounts of detail without seeming petty, tedious or self-indulgent.Eleanor Hawkins, Axios, 9 Jan. 2025
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“Nominal.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/nominal. Accessed 20 Jan. 2025.
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