Example Sentences

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The producer has a lot of uncontracted cargoes to sell directly into the spot market because it’s still in the commissioning phase for a new LNG facility, according to analysts at Mizuho.

From Barron's • Mar. 2, 2026

Or it could be a program to pay "waste pickers," the uncontracted workers who make their living by collecting refuse from dump sites and the natural environment and selling it to recyclers.

From Salon • Sep. 13, 2023

Under this, the exporters have committed to offer any uncontracted gas volumes to the domestic market on internationally competitive terms, before offering it to the international market, to help avert any shortfalls.

From Reuters • Aug. 1, 2022

The case related to a $2 million payment to Platini in 2011, authorized by FIFA’s then-president Blatter as uncontracted salary for work as an adviser a decade earlier.

From Washington Times • Mar. 5, 2020

We have seen that the antiquity of Beowulf is proved by the cases where metre demands the substitution of an older uncontracted form for the existing shorter one.

From Beowulf An Introduction to the Study of the Poem with a Discussion of the Stories of Offa and Finn by Chambers, R. W.