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Recent Examples of noncontroversial In July, city leaders seemed ready to approve the five-year extension by placing it on the council’s consent calendar — usually reserved for noncontroversial items. Mathew Miranda, Sacbee.com, 10 Sep. 2025 The bill is largely noncontroversial. Laura Kelly, The Hill, 5 Sep. 2025 While the use of AI use can be controversial for any job function, this study spends some time looking at fairly noncontroversial—and effective—uses. Megan Poinski, Forbes.com, 13 Aug. 2025 One caution — don’t overuse consent calendars as a technique to avoid discussing matters that are not truly routine or noncontroversial, because that can quickly destroy a board’s credibility. Kelly G. Richardson, San Diego Union-Tribune, 15 July 2025 See All Example Sentences for noncontroversial
Recent Examples of Synonyms for noncontroversial
Adjective
  • Fields slept at downtown bus stops, often gathering with groups or pretending to have a firearm in her coat to stay safe.
    Ashley Hiruko, ProPublica, 6 Oct. 2025
  • No payment data was accessed within the breach, meaning information like credits cards or transaction history was safe.
    James Peckham, PC Magazine, 6 Oct. 2025
Adjective
  • Typically, these fictional stories explored uncontroversial topics.
    Alex Wermer-Colan, The Conversation, 1 Oct. 2025
  • The tweets appeared to be an attempt to gin up outrage over the formerly uncontroversial bit, at a time when Donald Trump and the chairman of the FCC have been sending ominous messages about their view of the limits on the First Amendment’s right to free speech.
    Gil Kaufman, Billboard, 24 Sep. 2025

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“Noncontroversial.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/noncontroversial. Accessed 8 Oct. 2025.

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