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Recent Examples of nonevent
At the time, the statement struck some as a nonevent and others as premature: the investments in and attention to artificial intelligence seemed out of step with the company’s core business of internet search and advertising.
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Sam Jacobs, Time, 6 May 2026
While Wednesday was a complete nonevent in its second season, its star was nominated by both the Golden Globes and Actor Awards.
—Joe Reid, Vulture, 2 May 2026
The nonevent is the void with which the novel’s following two sections contend.
—Nicholas Dames, The Atlantic, 7 Apr. 2026
But buying one or two items of anything in this store is almost a nonevent.
—Anna Schecter, CBS News, 10 Mar. 2026
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Sam Jacobs, Time, 6 May 2026
While Wednesday was a complete nonevent in its second season, its star was nominated by both the Golden Globes and Actor Awards.
—Joe Reid, Vulture, 2 May 2026
The nonevent is the void with which the novel’s following two sections contend.
—Nicholas Dames, The Atlantic, 7 Apr. 2026
But buying one or two items of anything in this store is almost a nonevent.
—Anna Schecter, CBS News, 10 Mar. 2026
See All Example Sentences for nonevent
Recent Examples of Synonyms for nonevent
Noun
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The fiasco left aspiring translators in Korea, most of them people of color, with one less route into the profession, further enabling white people’s social and actual capital to be kept within their possession.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
18 May 2026
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The fiasco played out for days and led to in-depth reviews at both the BBC and BAFTA.—
Max Goldbart,
Deadline,
8 May 2026
Noun
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For much the same reason, developers, architects and builders are starting to stress proactively designing for climate catastrophe.—
Jeffrey Steele,
Forbes.com,
18 May 2026
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Local elections in England are usually low-stakes affairs, but this year’s results proved to be a catastrophe for the Labour Party.—
Ava Kofman,
New Yorker,
14 May 2026
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With Edgewater in the flood zone and Station 42 and Three Rock in disaster response mode, Bode (Max Thieriot) was on a side quest to make amends with Danny Marks (Mike O'Malley), a victim of Bode's criminal past.—
Britt Hayes,
Entertainment Weekly,
23 May 2026
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Through packing serious, scalable power into a mobile shipping container, VIVIFY is targeting remote industrial sites, disaster zones, forward military bases, and power-hungry data centers.—
Mrigakshi Dixit,
Interesting Engineering,
22 May 2026
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So this summer — about a year after that legal debacle — Miami voters will get the chance to decide.—
Miami Herald,
Miami Herald,
14 May 2026
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Eisenhower, for example, worries about the safety of his troops in Normandy after Operation Tiger, a rehearsal for D-Day that turned into a tragic debacle that cost men’s lives.—
Brian Truitt,
USA Today,
13 May 2026
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There will be several chances for rain across Maryland Wednesday through early next week, but none of the days are looking like washouts.—
Cutter Martin,
CBS News,
6 May 2026
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This is an ideal grass for patching after a washout.—
Lee Wallender,
The Spruce,
30 Apr. 2026
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With zero tangible downside for the loser of the game.—
Joe Rexrode,
New York Times,
21 May 2026
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The two no longer share much passion together, and Paulette mostly sees Henri as a loser who failed at several business ventures before arriving in Vichy and trying to make a name for himself.—
Jordan Mintzer,
HollywoodReporter,
20 May 2026
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The second story revolves around another filmmaker, Elsa (Bárbara Lennie), who had directed a couple of feature flops and is instead now using her talents in advertising and commercials.—
Anthony D'Alessandro,
Deadline,
20 May 2026
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The show, which premiered on Broadway in 1947, was Lerner and Loewe’s first hit after a string of flops and fizzles.—
Theater Critic,
Los Angeles Times,
20 May 2026
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The Defense Ministry said in a terse statement that soldiers discovered a bomb that was ready to be detonated in the central Bab Sharqi district of Damascus.—
ABC News,
ABC News,
19 May 2026
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Republicans said the deal was not effectively keeping Iran from building a bomb.—
Christopher Cann,
USA Today,
18 May 2026
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“Nonevent.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/nonevent. Accessed 24 May. 2026.
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