as in unmarketable
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Recent Examples of noncommercial
Those stations are licensed by the FCC to operate, but are limited to operating as noncommercial educational broadcast stations.
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Melissa Quinn, CBS News, 29 Apr. 2025
In contrast, the fatal accident rate for general aviation (an industry term for noncommercial or smaller private planes) was 1.049 accidents per 100,000 flight hours in 2020, the most recent year for which NTSB data is available.
—Barbara Peterson, AFAR Media, 21 Apr. 2025
Colorado River in Grand Canyon National Park In 2006, the National Park Service switched from a waitlist to a lottery for noncommercial rafting permits on the portion of the Colorado River that snakes through the Grand Canyon.
—Mindy Sink, Denver Post, 2 Apr. 2025
For example, the hourly rate is going from $6 to $7 for nonprofits to use a meeting or activity room, while noncommercial groups will see their hourly rate rise from $55 to $66.
—David Garrick, San Diego Union-Tribune, 11 Mar. 2025
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Melissa Quinn, CBS News, 29 Apr. 2025
In contrast, the fatal accident rate for general aviation (an industry term for noncommercial or smaller private planes) was 1.049 accidents per 100,000 flight hours in 2020, the most recent year for which NTSB data is available.
—Barbara Peterson, AFAR Media, 21 Apr. 2025
Colorado River in Grand Canyon National Park In 2006, the National Park Service switched from a waitlist to a lottery for noncommercial rafting permits on the portion of the Colorado River that snakes through the Grand Canyon.
—Mindy Sink, Denver Post, 2 Apr. 2025
For example, the hourly rate is going from $6 to $7 for nonprofits to use a meeting or activity room, while noncommercial groups will see their hourly rate rise from $55 to $66.
—David Garrick, San Diego Union-Tribune, 11 Mar. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for noncommercial
Adjective
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Despite this, menopause was still seen as an unmarketable subject.—
Jane Hanson,
Forbes,
24 Oct. 2024
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So this real country tune, which should have been more popular, and maybe turned into a National Rifle Association theme song, was so unmarketable that not even Yvette Noel-Schure could sell it.—
Armond White,
National Review,
28 Feb. 2024
Adjective
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Despite a seemingly uncommercial script full of ambiguous menace that constantly intimated and never confirmed that supernatural forces were in play, The Witch earned more than ten times its $4 million budget.—
Matt Zoller Seitz,
Vulture,
14 Jan. 2025
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Never has an album this uncommercial blossomed into a structurally experimental musical and succeeded with Broadway crowds and critics, nabbing four 2024 Tony nominations, including best musical.—
Joe Lynch,
Billboard,
22 May 2024
Adjective
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His books are frequently both excellent and unsalable.—
Gemma Sieff,
Harper’s Magazine ,
4 Jan. 2022
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Guston retreated to his home and studio in Woodstock, New York, returned to teaching, and spent his last, enormously productive decade churning out mad, masterful, largely unsalable paintings of people and things behaving badly.—
Susan Tallman,
The New York Review of Books,
14 Jan. 2021
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“Noncommercial.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/noncommercial. Accessed 27 May. 2025.
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