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Brad Jones, a political science professor at UC Davis who studies immigration policy, said the exchange between Vance and Walz on immigration was largely nonsubstantive.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 2, 2024

California Air Resources Board spokesman Stanley Yong said talks so far have been "highly nonsubstantive."

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 19, 2018

A separate count done by data consultant Michael Bommarito and Michigan State Law Professor Daniel Katz came up with 2.6 million words, although their analysis didn’t include nonsubstantive words like is, and, or at.

From Slate • Oct. 26, 2011

Richard Allen, Reagan's former National Security Adviser, has admitted receiving on three occasions what he calls "innocuous, trite, useless, nonsubstantive, nonclassified and unsolicited material" from Carter's National Security Council.

From Time Magazine Archive

Except for White House Press Secretary Jody Powell's terse briefings on nonsubstantive matters, there was nothing to go on, nothing for a frustrated worldwide press corps of some 350 to report.

From Time Magazine Archive