Example Sentences

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U.S. investors have poured $6.6 trillion into achieving partially nonpecuniary results, according to the US Sustainable Investment Forum.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 16, 2026

“By permitting plaintiffs to pursue nominal damages whenever they suffered a personal legal injury,” he wrote, “the common law avoided the oddity of privileging small-dollar economic rights over important, but not easily quantifiable, nonpecuniary rights.”

From New York Times • Mar. 8, 2021

Most of them are trying to make a living while seeking the nonpecuniary benefits that come from not having a boss. 

From Slate • May 16, 2012