Example Sentences

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“In finance, precision is nonnegotiable and hallucinations are a deal breaker,” said JP Suh, a product manager on Google’s DeepMind team who was involved in developing Sky.

From Barron's • Apr. 22, 2026

All of this makes medical care a nonnegotiable, highly expensive commodity.

From MarketWatch • Jan. 26, 2026

Yet “most expenses related to housing are fixed or nonnegotiable, including mortgage payments, water & sewer charges, insurance, fuel, and electricity, leaving maintenance as the largest single category of discretionary operating costs.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 30, 2025

They spend an average of 3.7 hours per week on necessary caregiving, like changing diapers; dads without a college degree do just 1.9 hours per week of that kind of nonnegotiable labor.

From Slate • Sep. 13, 2025

And everyone brushed their teeth for at least a minute—that’s one of my mom’s nonnegotiable rules.

From "The Benefits of Being an Octopus" by Ann Braden