as in null
having no legal or binding force a verbal agreement is considered nonbinding in this state

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Recent Examples of nonbinding Earlier, in the March GOP primary, 81% of voters agreed with a nonbinding proposition that no Democrats should be named, Rinaldi noted. Dallas News, 12 Jan. 2023 The executive committee of the Texas Republican Party unanimously passed a nonbinding vote of no-confidence in Ms. McDaniel, and the Arizona G.O.P. publicly called on her to resign. Ken Bensinger, New York Times, 28 Dec. 2022 Peskov ruled out the payment of reparations to Ukraine, calling this an effort to rob Russia’s foreign currency and gold reserves, after a nonbinding U.N. General Assembly vote Monday calling on Russia to compensate Ukraine for war damage. David L. Stern, Washington Post, 15 Nov. 2022 In 1994, the Catron county commission voted unanimously to pass a nonbinding resolution stating that every household should possess a firearm and ammunition for the purpose of home defense. Brandon Kapelow, Time, 13 Oct. 2022 See All Example Sentences for nonbinding
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Adjective
  • Numerous state legislatures, heavily lobbied by commercial industries, have preempted or challenged Rights of Nature laws, rendering them null, void, and wholly unenforceable.
    India Nye Wenner, Rolling Stone, 22 Apr. 2025
  • To reporters late Sunday evening and later on social media, Trump claimed the pardons are null because Biden had used an autopen rather than sign by hand.
    Savannah Kuchar, USA TODAY, 17 Mar. 2025
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  • Thankfully, plenty of other types of fruit are standing at the ready to fill that fiber void—without skimping on that watermelon-like crunch either.
    Caroline Tien, SELF, 16 Apr. 2025
  • The agreements were declared void, and the Kailasans were deported — not to Kailasa, but to their actual home countries, among them India, the United States, Sweden and China.
    Mujib Mashal, New York Times, 3 Apr. 2025
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  • Walgreens pharmacists ignored red flags that the prescriptions were invalid or lacked a medical purpose, the complaint said.
    Caroline Petrow-Cohen, Los Angeles Times, 21 Apr. 2025
  • Walgreens then allegedly submitted reimbursement claims to several different federal healthcare programs, including Medicare, Medicaid and TRICARE, for prescriptions that were invalid or not medically necessary and were not eligible for reimbursement, according to the agreement.
    Angie DiMichele, Sun Sentinel, 21 Apr. 2025

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“Nonbinding.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/nonbinding. Accessed 1 May. 2025.

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