noneconomic

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Recent Examples of noneconomic Across the world, elites have promoted ideologies that focus the poor’s attention on noneconomic flash points, such as culture, ethnicity, and religion. Timur Kuran, Foreign Affairs, 15 Aug. 2017 The judge declined to award punitive damages, however, the judgment is broken down to $100,000 in noneconomic damages, $18,000 in special damages, $3,070 in attorney fees, and another $2,173 in costs. Demicia Inman, VIBE.com, 4 Apr. 2025 As with many elections, the 2022 midterms may ultimately hinge on noneconomic issues; nevertheless, the state of the economy has significant predictive power over voter preferences, and politicians know it. Kenneth S. Rogoff, Foreign Affairs, 24 Oct. 2022 National security has traditionally been defined as protecting a country’s sovereignty and territorial integrity against foreign military threats, an approach that tends to ignore nonmilitary and noneconomic sources of power. Amitav Acharya, Foreign Affairs, 21 June 2022 See All Example Sentences for noneconomic
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Adjective
  • But Volokh believes the financial consequences of filing bogus citations should pale next to the nonmonetary consequences.
    Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 22 May 2025
  • The massive influx of precious metal helped transform the Chinese economy from a nonmonetary economy based on feudal obligations and barter trade into a monetized economy based on market exchange.
    Salvatore Babones, Foreign Affairs, 7 June 2015
Adjective
  • Still, the hostility toward large nonfinancial companies is a harmful restriction on competition, one that fails to create a neutral regulatory environment or create a level playing field for issuers.
    Norbert Michel, Forbes.com, 4 June 2025
  • Filming locations are rarely considered a matter of national pride, let alone taken into account for nonfinancial reasons.
    David Sims, The Atlantic, 17 May 2025

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“Noneconomic.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/noneconomic. Accessed 24 Jul. 2025.

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