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Recent Examples of nonproductive
Course of trade in the oil industry often leaves the public on the hook for nonproductive well cleanup costs, including capping.
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Andrew Leahey, Forbes, 7 Jan. 2025
But there are productive and nonproductive ways to respond.
—Carlo J.v. Caro, Foreign Affairs, 7 Mar. 2017
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.
—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
Andrew Leahey, Forbes, 7 Jan. 2025
But there are productive and nonproductive ways to respond.
—Carlo J.v. Caro, Foreign Affairs, 7 Mar. 2017
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.
—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
Recent Examples of Synonyms for nonproductive
Adjective
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The problem with these groups is that not only are you being sold something that is probably close to worthless, but by not dealing directly with an attorney there is no attorney-client privilege which protects the communications between these groups and their clients.—
Jay Adkisson,
Forbes,
25 Feb. 2025
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In a political and social climate ripe with fear and uncertainty, survival can feel like a worthless pursuit, but Black history teaches us how to live in liminality — to embrace the unknown, the in-between, the transitional.—
Mathew Holloway,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
23 Feb. 2025
Adjective
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The present state of the music industry—both fragmented (vast numbers of independent and DIY releases, mostly unprofitable) and consolidated (Universal, Sony, and Warner accounting for more than 70 percent of industry profits)—is hardly surprising.—
Harper's Magazine,
Harper's Magazine,
19 Feb. 2025
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These startups are typically risky investments, usually unprofitable and often capitalize on technological advancements like Web3 or AI.—
Joash Lee,
Forbes,
20 Dec. 2024
Adjective
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Instead, tax dollars are being siphoned off to fund unproductive and unnecessary programs that benefit radical interest groups while hurting hard-working American citizens.—
Ross Rosenfeld,
Newsweek,
26 Feb. 2025
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Instead, tax dollars are being siphoned off to fund unproductive and unnecessary programs that benefit radical interest groups while hurting hardworking American citizens.—
Joey Garrison,
USA TODAY,
26 Feb. 2025
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Stephanie played her shot in the dark (a 1 in 6 chance at safety in exchange for a vote), but was unsuccessful and the 38-year-old tech product lead living in Brooklyn was the first person to be voted out of Season 48.—
Emily DeLetter,
USA TODAY,
28 Feb. 2025
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While the administration's efforts to slash the size of the federal government are embroiled in various lawsuits, court challenges to halt the shutdown of USAID have been unsuccessful so far.—
GARY FIELDS AND ELLEN KNICKMEYER THE ASSOCIATED PRESS,
arkansasonline.com,
28 Feb. 2025
Adjective
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Trump might still engage in gratuitous protectionism and pick pointless diplomatic squabbles.—
HAL BRANDS,
Foreign Affairs,
25 Feb. 2025
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Slavin was pointless in the tournament but his steady pairing with Brock Faber of the Minnesota Wild was effective and reliable during an event when every team was rolling out dangerous scorers on every line.—
Carol Schram,
Forbes,
22 Feb. 2025
Adjective
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Those assets are useless on a device like the Deck, and take up unnecessary space.—
Jason Evangelho,
Forbes,
6 Mar. 2025
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In stereotypical rich-TV-family fashion, the ultimate symbol of Baba’s success is that both of his sons are sort of useless.—
Angie Han,
The Hollywood Reporter,
5 Mar. 2025
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Less than a year and a half later, Mr. Lukashenko allowed Russia to use his country as a staging ground for its full-scale invasion of Ukraine, with an abortive thrust south from Belarus toward Kyiv.—
Tomas Dapkus,
New York Times,
15 Feb. 2025
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Yet Texas law forbids its state maternal mortality review committee from looking into the deaths of patients who received an abortive procedure or medication, even in cases of miscarriage.—
Ziva Branstetter,
ProPublica,
17 Jan. 2025
Adjective
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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 9 Mar. 2025.
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