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Recent Examples of negotiable Few people realise that the $640 million in negotiable bearer bonds Hans so desperately wanted was needed to fund his vinyl addiction. Chris Haslam, Wired News, 23 May 2025 Among them: Agents must inform buyers and sellers that their fees are negotiable. Laurel Wamsley, NPR, 21 May 2025 Taste, though not disputable, is certainly negotiable. Adam Gopnik, New Yorker, 19 May 2025 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 See All Example Sentences for negotiable
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Adjective
  • The energy tightrope that helped China through the supply shocks of the beginning of the war in Ukraine and subsequent global inflation appears to no longer be navigable.
    Wesley Alexander Hill, Forbes.com, 18 June 2025
  • When judges become the arbiters of what constitutes a wetland or navigable water, businesses are left guessing how long a permit will hold, or if it’s needed at all.
    John F. McQuillan, Forbes.com, 27 May 2025
Adjective
  • Credits are issued by independent registries but the market has faced criticism for inconsistent standards, greenwashing, and questionable impact.
    Dianne Plummer, Forbes.com, 2 July 2025
  • Chisholm followed that free pass with a questionable sac bunt for the first out of the inning.
    Gary Phillips, New York Daily News, 1 July 2025
Adjective
  • While the films’ impact on government policy and/or public opinion is debatable, movies large and small have been at the forefront of some of the 21st century’s most difficult conversations.
    David Ehrlich, IndieWire, 25 June 2025
  • How much coffee per day leads to healthy aging is debatable.
    Renée Onque, CNBC, 20 June 2025
Adjective
  • Now, all of those choices are moot, and states are scrambling to make new ones.
    Nicholas Creel, MSNBC Newsweek, 25 June 2025
  • Marte is facing a competitive primary challenge in Tuesday’s election, and his support for the rezonings would become moot if he isn’t reelected.
    Chris Sommerfeldt, New York Daily News, 23 June 2025
Adjective
  • Obama has now been succeeded twice by his arguable antithesis, Donald Trump, ...
    Jack Butler, National Review, 15 June 2025
  • 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

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“Negotiable.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/negotiable. Accessed 7 Jul. 2025.

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