1
as in navigable
capable of being traveled on
some of the national park's roads are not negotiable in winter
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2
as in questionable
open to question or dispute
the final judgment is not negotiable
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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.
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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
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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
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for negotiable
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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
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The International Hydrographic Organization — of which the United States is a member — works to ensure all the world’s seas, oceans and navigable waters are surveyed and charted uniformly, and also names some of them.—
Matthew Lee,
Los Angeles Times,
7 May 2025
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Technical guardrails help ensure agents stay within scope and flag questionable output for human review.—
Spencer Dorn,
Forbes.com,
10 June 2025
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Trump ordered 2,000 National Guard troops to LA, and, under a questionable legal basis, the Secretary of Defense has put Marines at Camp Pendleton on alert.—
Dominic Patten,
Deadline,
8 June 2025
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While his perspective on European exceptionalism may be debatable, his timing isn't.—
Charles Towers-Clark,
Forbes.com,
13 June 2025
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That bill would aggressively phase out crucial clean energy tax credits and lead to fewer renewable energy additions—though the degree of that drop off is debatable.—
Justin Worland,
Time,
13 June 2025
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The Justice Department said Thursday that the case may be moot because of the administration’s latest procedural move to delay the ban.—
Katelyn Polantz,
CNN Money,
29 May 2025
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This transference makes a moot point of all criticisms that could reasonably be leveled at the film.—
Sophie Monks Kaufman,
IndieWire,
16 May 2025
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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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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 20 Jun. 2025.
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