Example Sentences

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On Friday's episode of "Real Time With Bill Maher," a segment in which Maher talks about Madison Cawthorn contrasts the nonconservative actions of the congressman against his public-facing conservative Christian messaging.

From Salon • May 7, 2022

“Cumulus has a big, broad set of interests — they have advertisers, sports contracts, nonconservative podcasts, dealings with the F.C.C. over station licensing,” Mr. Rosenwald said.

From New York Times • Jan. 11, 2021

If Wnc is zero, then mechanical energy is conserved, and nonconservative forces are balanced.

From Textbooks • Aug. 12, 2015

Feel free to substitute the nonconservative icon of your choosing as you read that sentence.

From Forbes • Sep. 19, 2013

That system was rattled in 1993, when Ozawa, an LDP renegade, engineered the election of Japan's first nonconservative Prime Minister post-1948.

From Time Magazine Archive