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Recent Examples of negotiable City finance officials say the deepest cuts fall on libraries and parks because some city expenses are not negotiable, like the annual pension payment, and others are a higher priority, like public safety and infrastructure. David Garrick, San Diego Union-Tribune, 14 May 2025 Ahead of a second round of talks set to take place in Rome this weekend, Foreign Minister Abbas Araqchi said on Wednesday that Iran's right to enrich uranium is not negotiable. Guy Faulconbridge and Parisa Hafezi, USA Today, 18 Apr. 2025 The bill caps the fund at $800 million, but Fonfara said the figure is negotiable. Edmund H. Mahony, Hartford Courant, 16 Apr. 2025 Stocks take dive amid Trump tariffs, worries of trade war Are tariffs negotiable? Medora Lee, USA Today, 7 Apr. 2025 See All Example Sentences for negotiable
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Adjective
  • Binding priorities in the City Charter Section 55.2 direct taxpayer investments first toward navigable waterways, then environmental restoration and protection, and last to deferred maintenance projects.
    Jim Peugh, San Diego Union-Tribune, 20 May 2025
  • Soon creators will be able to prompt fully navigable 3D virtual worlds with realistic physics and intelligent NPCs.
    Charlie Fink, Forbes.com, 28 Apr. 2025
Adjective
  • While many supplements are questionable at best, some of the hype about creatine seems warranted; even the International Olympic Committee has it on a short list of four supplements that are largely safe and proven effective for athletes.
    Cindy Kuzma, SELF, 28 May 2025
  • Overall, there are some reasonable ideas scattered throughout the executive orders (though whether their implementation ends up being reasonable is questionable, especially given DOGE's involvement).
    ArsTechnica, ArsTechnica, 27 May 2025
Adjective
  • Whether or not Jones would have wanted his character to feature in Fortnite is debatable, but strangely enough, Disney’s Star Wars has inspired similar debates in the past.
    Dani Di Placido, Forbes.com, 20 May 2025
  • Whether that was the best ploy is debatable, particularly as results on the field have waned.
    Chris Weatherspoon, New York Times, 14 May 2025
Adjective
  • The Bronx Bombers plated two more after that to put the game away, so the airborne glove became a moot point.
    Denver Post, Denver Post, 26 May 2025
  • As a result, the lawsuit was voluntarily dismissed, with the court deeming the matter moot.
    Billal Rahman, MSNBC Newsweek, 23 May 2025
Adjective
  • But certifying who gets to participate in the lawsuit can take months or years, while a policy and its arguable harms would survive.
    Bart Jansen, USA Today, 18 May 2025
  • The Eagles also had dynamic and arguable MVP running back Saquon Barkley in the backfield.
    Tom Rogers, Newsweek, 22 Feb. 2025

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“Negotiable.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/negotiable. Accessed 3 Jun. 2025.

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