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Recent Examples of negotiable For a Sharks team trying to climb out of the basement, those qualities should be non-negotiable, especially while playing at home and attempting to prove to your fanbase that this season might be a bit different than the last few. Curtis Pashelka, Mercury News, 15 Oct. 2025 The other non-negotiable is that Colorado will not further curtail its use of the Colorado River without major concessions from California and Arizona. The Denver Post Editorial Board, Denver Post, 13 Oct. 2025 To apply this lesson, consider which of your criteria are non-negotiable. Amy Lindgren, Twin Cities, 13 Oct. 2025 At the same time, the president believes the timing of a non-negotiable tariff, always a possibility, is right for our American companies. Jim Cramer, CNBC, 12 Oct. 2025 See All Example Sentences for negotiable
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Adjective
  • Bruhn says the entire complex is designed to be fully navigable by guests using wheelchairs and ECVs, and many of the exhibits include wide, level walkways and accessible entry points.
    Mariette Williams, USA Today, 10 Oct. 2025
  • How to Get Around The old town of Villefranche-sur-Mer, with its concentration of visitor attractions and restaurants, is easy to walk around—in fact, some streets are only navigable on foot.
    Chrissie McClatchie, Travel + Leisure, 6 Oct. 2025
Adjective
  • Adding to the lore, Springer was hit by a pitch in his right knee late during Game 5 in Seattle, a Mariners victory that put them up 3-2 and was questionable for the rest of the series.
    Barry M. Bloom, Sportico.com, 21 Oct. 2025
  • These are winnable games if everyone executes on the Carolina side, but Young being questionable for both (potentially) makes the outlook kind of up in the air.
    Mike Kaye October 21, Charlotte Observer, 21 Oct. 2025
Adjective
  • That time, a very disputable foul denied him.
    Matt Woosnam, New York Times, 18 Aug. 2025
Adjective
  • Whether girls are reaching puberty six years earlier than previously is debatable—a 2024 study found a shift of only six months, not six years.
    Jasmine Laws, MSNBC Newsweek, 17 Oct. 2025
  • That’s debatable, but the sweet, vanilla-forward coating and pop of salt on top turns ordinary pretzels into a yummy confection nonetheless.
    Jolene Thym, Mercury News, 14 Oct. 2025
Adjective
  • While the limit of eight designated to returns might be a moot point, Waller would be considered the sixth in that regard.
    Miami Herald, Miami Herald, 22 Oct. 2025
  • For many shoppers, the settlement was largely moot, however.
    Paul Rogers, Mercury News, 18 Oct. 2025
Adjective
  • While that’s arguable, what is not is that productivity in the U.K. has been remarkably flat for roughly 20 years.
    Nick Lichtenberg, Fortune, 22 Sep. 2025
  • Whether a cell in 1598 played a part in conceiving of the scrawny, hobbled hidalgo with a cardboard visor and a bent lance is arguable, but Cervantes’ far more traumatic enslavement from 1571 until 1576 must have formed his intimate comprehension of the difference between freedom and servitude.
    Ed Simon September 22, Literary Hub, 22 Sep. 2025

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“Negotiable.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/negotiable. Accessed 27 Oct. 2025.

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