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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
  • The increasingly popular use of void years — dummy years to spread the cap hit beyond a contract’s expiration — magnifies the effect.
    Mike Sando, New York Times, 10 Sep. 2025
  • In his appeal though, obtained by PEOPLE, Guobadia argued that their November 2022 prenup was void because Williams allegedly misrepresented herself during negotiations by not disclosing her plans to return to RHOA.
    Dave Quinn, People.com, 10 Sep. 2025
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  • Beijing maintains the ruling is invalid.
    Micah McCartney, MSNBC Newsweek, 16 Sep. 2025
  • The other client of Miami’s Rawsi Williams in the Bar’s petition, however, filed a Bar grievance after the first settlement funds check sent to her was declared invalid by her bank.
    David J. Neal, Miami Herald, 9 Sep. 2025

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“Nonbinding.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/nonbinding. Accessed 18 Sep. 2025.

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