nonpolluting

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of Synonyms for nonpolluting
Adjective
  • The toys are beautifully made with nontoxic materials.
    Adrienne So, Wired News, 17 May 2025
  • These engines, which the team says can carry safe and nontoxic propellant, work by the spacecraft passing an electric current through water to create stores of high-pressure hydrogen and oxygen.
    Monisha Ravisetti, Space.com, 18 Apr. 2025
Adjective
  • In the chemical and materials industries, quantum computing could inform the design of more efficient batteries for electric cars and noncorrosive elements for ships.
    Charina Chou, Foreign Affairs, 7 Jan. 2025
  • In the chemical and materials industries, quantum computing could inform the design of more efficient batteries for electric cars and noncorrosive elements for ships.
    Charina Chou, Foreign Affairs, 7 Jan. 2025
Adjective
  • Advocates say there are ways around the issue by carefully sourcing nonpoisonous trees that are grown organically and not sprayed with fire retardant.
    Charles Passy, WSJ, 27 Dec. 2020
  • This will give them a chance to exercise this innate behavior with a safe source of nonpoisonous plant life.
    David Shultz, Science | AAAS, 8 Aug. 2019
Adjective
  • The nondestructive technology resulted in thousands of X-rays of the mummies and their coffins.
    Ashley Strickland, CNN, 9 Nov. 2024
  • The discovery, which the Politecnico di Milano announced in January, came about through a series of surveys that aimed to digitize the 15th century Sforza Castle’s underground structures through nondestructive methods such as ground-penetrating radar and laser scanning.
    Taylor Nicioli, CNN, 1 Mar. 2025
Adjective
  • Family members and neighbors questioned why police did not do more to de-escalate the situation or use nonlethal weapons.
    John Bacon, USA Today, 13 Apr. 2025
  • Study up on the effects of the nonlethal weapons that could be used against you.
    Louryn Strampe, Wired News, 9 Apr. 2025
Adjective
  • Maybe that’s the lesson the university is actually communicating to its students, beneath whatever charmingly nasal encouragement Kermit doles out on graduation day: to err on the unobjectionable side when things look dicey.
    Callie Holtermann, New York Times, 28 Mar. 2025
  • Many orders can be unobjectionable, such as giving federal employees the day after Christmas off.
    Josh Boak, Chicago Tribune, 20 Jan. 2025
Adjective
  • That last one may simply be unique to Logan Lerman, the latest nonthreatening boy to take center stage in HAIM’s new album rollout.
    Fran Hoepfner, Vulture, 25 Apr. 2025
  • Her previous recipes have included homemade marmalade, ratatouille, pasta from scratch, and tzatziki dip, which all sound lovely and nonthreatening.
    Li Goldstein, Bon Appétit, 31 Mar. 2023
Adjective
  • However, several types of infectious and noninfectious meningitis don’t spread from person to person.
    Heidi Moawad, Verywell Health, 18 Jan. 2025
  • Kennedy’s largest focus of late has been on noninfectious diseases such as diabetes and cancer and their risk factors such as obesity.
    ByJocelyn Kaiser, science.org, 15 Nov. 2024
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“Nonpolluting.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/nonpolluting. Accessed 22 May. 2025.

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