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Bring The Office Closer To Them As populations grow, the real challenge of coming to the office is long commute times and the resulting nonproductive cycles.
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Expert Panel®, Forbes, 14 Oct. 2024
Since health care is often treated as a resource-dependent, nonproductive sector, in order to get things done, the Ministry of Health must negotiate with other central bureaucracies or call on superiors to intervene in cross-sector bargaining.
—Yanzhong Huang, Foreign Affairs, 1 Nov. 2011
Buoyed by the early promise of its Dravet therapeutic, the company developed a second drug candidate, STK-002, that similarly targets splicing to turn nonproductive gene transcripts into constructive ones.
—Elie Dolgin, Discover Magazine, 26 Apr. 2023
Remove all twiggy, dead or nonproductive growth.
—oregonlive, 8 Mar. 2022
But will this calculation include all the opportunity cost of the expenditure of nonproductive effort?
—WSJ, 16 Aug. 2022
In this framework, nonproductive bodies and ways of living become illegitimate in some way.
—John Patrick Leary, The New Republic, 6 Aug. 2021
Patients have what appear to be the typical symptoms of Covid-19: a nonproductive cough, chest tightness, and in some cases some mild gastrointestinal symptoms — usually nausea, vomiting and diarrhea.
—Lisa Sanders, New York Times, 18 Mar. 2020
The highways will be crowded with hunters, but waiting until the following weekend of Oct. 26-27 might be nonproductive.
—John Schandelmeier, Anchorage Daily News, 7 Oct. 2019
Expert Panel®, Forbes, 14 Oct. 2024
Since health care is often treated as a resource-dependent, nonproductive sector, in order to get things done, the Ministry of Health must negotiate with other central bureaucracies or call on superiors to intervene in cross-sector bargaining.
—Yanzhong Huang, Foreign Affairs, 1 Nov. 2011
Buoyed by the early promise of its Dravet therapeutic, the company developed a second drug candidate, STK-002, that similarly targets splicing to turn nonproductive gene transcripts into constructive ones.
—Elie Dolgin, Discover Magazine, 26 Apr. 2023
Remove all twiggy, dead or nonproductive growth.
—oregonlive, 8 Mar. 2022
But will this calculation include all the opportunity cost of the expenditure of nonproductive effort?
—WSJ, 16 Aug. 2022
In this framework, nonproductive bodies and ways of living become illegitimate in some way.
—John Patrick Leary, The New Republic, 6 Aug. 2021
Patients have what appear to be the typical symptoms of Covid-19: a nonproductive cough, chest tightness, and in some cases some mild gastrointestinal symptoms — usually nausea, vomiting and diarrhea.
—Lisa Sanders, New York Times, 18 Mar. 2020
The highways will be crowded with hunters, but waiting until the following weekend of Oct. 26-27 might be nonproductive.
—John Schandelmeier, Anchorage Daily News, 7 Oct. 2019
Recent Examples of Synonyms for nonproductive
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Thing is… Matty realizes, too late, that Senior quietly moved to bankrupt his developer client, making the settlement that Robert agreed to literally worthless (though other claimants will be made whole).Matt Webb Mitovich, TVLine, 31 Oct. 2024
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In all likelihood Trump would manage to sell only a portion of his shares before the rest became effectively worthless with the stock bottoming out.Paolo Confino, Fortune, 25 Oct. 2024
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The frightening concoction is the same for all legacy media companies that rely on traditional pay-TV for the bulk of their revenue: Cable subscribers are dropping by the millions each year, and streaming – as a replacement service – is either unprofitable or barely profitable.Alex Sherman, CNBC, 31 Oct. 2024
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This led to the elimination of nearly $40 million worth of unprofitable product sales.Robert Gorin, WWD, 30 Oct. 2024
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But some of those allusions to unproductive mornings and squinting unpreparedness belie an unease with the endeavor of book reviewing itself.Sloane Crosley, The New Yorker, 1 Nov. 2024
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Even missing just a few hours of sleep can turn the most stable person into a grumpy, unproductive mess the next day.Valentina Bottoni, Vogue, 23 Oct. 2024
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Attempts to reach Board of Elections officials about Ike's case Tuesday night were unsuccessful.Amber Hunt, The Enquirer, 6 Nov. 2024
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Momentum then seemed to stall, and Meta filed an unsuccessful motion to dismiss.Adriana Lee, WWD, 4 Nov. 2024
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That aggressive pursuit seems especially pointless in the (still very cryptic) big picture scope that Tsuta displays — the film transporting into 35mm color film, widescreen landscape shots showing dilapidated buildings and other dead things while the rest of nature carries on.Kambole Campbell, IndieWire, 5 Nov. 2024
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It’s being kept around after in a pointless fashion.Katie Campione, Deadline, 4 Nov. 2024
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Some of the waste is for procedures that are essentially useless.Elizabeth Weise, USA TODAY, 30 Oct. 2024
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Jim and Tabitha get into a pretty useless yelling match about how each is behaving.Erik Kain, Forbes, 27 Oct. 2024
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The abortive investigation was overseen by Ralph Barrington, the head of the Criminal Investigation Department at the Essex Police.Heidi Blake, The New Yorker, 29 July 2024
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The novel’s denouement finds Lucy planning to stay on the farm to raise her child and David, humbled by an abortive attempt to return to Cape Town, working in the animal shelter near her property.Lauren LeBlanc, Los Angeles Times, 1 July 2024
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The position advanced by the states is legally unavailing as a matter of longstanding and well-established law.WSJ, WSJ, 25 July 2018
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Efforts to aid him with lifeboats, three of which were ineffectually trying to breast the heavy sea, were unavailing, while a lifeline, held by a number of rescuers, was carried far out into the surf by a number of swimmers.sandiegouniontribune.com, sandiegouniontribune.com, 6 May 2018
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“Nonproductive.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/nonproductive. Accessed 12 Nov. 2024.
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