Example Sentences

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Bopp's letter describes the standard way that jet owners account for nonbusiness guests: "Reimbursements at rates prescribed by law," he wrote, were paid to the Crow business that owned his jet.

From Salon • Jul. 17, 2023

By century’s end, even non-economists reviewing mass-market books for nonbusiness publications were declaring that capitalism is great for efficiency but “cannot achieve moral aims.”

From Washington Post • Mar. 11, 2022

But the firm only has about 200,000 nonbusiness users, which sounds like too few to me.

From Slate • Aug. 17, 2012

About 20 percent of Boston Consulting Group’s new consultants, for example, come from law schools, medical schools, public-policy schools, Ph.D. programs or other nonbusiness schools.

From New York Times • Dec. 11, 2011

The Fiesta Bowl released an internal report that uncovered "excessive compensation, nonbusiness and inappropriate expenditures and inappropriate gifts" and fired longtime CEO and President John Junker.

From Seattle Times • Mar. 30, 2011