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Recent Examples of nonproductive
Course of trade in the oil industry often leaves the public on the hook for nonproductive well cleanup costs, including capping.
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Andrew Leahey, Forbes, 7 Jan. 2025
Bring The Office Closer To Them As populations grow, the real challenge of coming to the office is long commute times and the resulting nonproductive cycles.
—Expert Panel®, Forbes, 14 Oct. 2024
Course of trade in the oil industry often leaves the public on the hook for nonproductive well cleanup costs, including capping.
—Andrew Leahey, Forbes, 7 Jan. 2025
Bring The Office Closer To Them As populations grow, the real challenge of coming to the office is long commute times and the resulting nonproductive cycles.
—Expert Panel®, Forbes, 14 Oct. 2024
Buoyed by the early promise of its Dravet therapeutic, the company developed a second drug candidate, STK-002, that similarly targets splicing to turn nonproductive gene transcripts into constructive ones.
—Elie Dolgin, Discover Magazine, 26 Apr. 2023
Remove all twiggy, dead or nonproductive growth.
—oregonlive, 8 Mar. 2022
But will this calculation include all the opportunity cost of the expenditure of nonproductive effort?
—WSJ, 16 Aug. 2022
In this framework, nonproductive bodies and ways of living become illegitimate in some way.
—John Patrick Leary, The New Republic, 6 Aug. 2021
Andrew Leahey, Forbes, 7 Jan. 2025
Bring The Office Closer To Them As populations grow, the real challenge of coming to the office is long commute times and the resulting nonproductive cycles.
—Expert Panel®, Forbes, 14 Oct. 2024
Course of trade in the oil industry often leaves the public on the hook for nonproductive well cleanup costs, including capping.
—Andrew Leahey, Forbes, 7 Jan. 2025
Bring The Office Closer To Them As populations grow, the real challenge of coming to the office is long commute times and the resulting nonproductive cycles.
—Expert Panel®, Forbes, 14 Oct. 2024
Buoyed by the early promise of its Dravet therapeutic, the company developed a second drug candidate, STK-002, that similarly targets splicing to turn nonproductive gene transcripts into constructive ones.
—Elie Dolgin, Discover Magazine, 26 Apr. 2023
Remove all twiggy, dead or nonproductive growth.
—oregonlive, 8 Mar. 2022
But will this calculation include all the opportunity cost of the expenditure of nonproductive effort?
—WSJ, 16 Aug. 2022
In this framework, nonproductive bodies and ways of living become illegitimate in some way.
—John Patrick Leary, The New Republic, 6 Aug. 2021
Recent Examples of Synonyms for nonproductive
Adjective
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Otherwise their responses to art would be worthless.—
Charlotte Runcie
July 10,
Literary Hub,
10 July 2025
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The incumbents protect the fort until the fort is worthless (cliche cf.—
Forrester,
Forbes.com,
2 July 2025
Adjective
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End of the production line By 1947, woodies had started to become unprofitable because of the labor needed to produce them.—
Kurt Snibbe,
Oc Register,
19 July 2025
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At the time, executives said that 12:35 a.m. show had become unprofitable for CBS.—
CNN.com Wire Service,
Mercury News,
18 July 2025
Adjective
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The Giants could use him as a rental option at first base if Devers is unwilling or unproductive at the position.—
Zach Pressnell,
MSNBC Newsweek,
12 July 2025
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This unproductive at-bat felt like an omen…so close, but just not going to happen.—
Dan Freedman,
Forbes.com,
6 June 2025
Adjective
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Although a request for proposals for a new company to run the facility drew interest from at least two companies, neither ended up completing the process to submit a proposal and efforts to reach out to other companies have so far been unsuccessful, Hyde said.—
Arkansas Online,
Arkansas Online,
25 July 2025
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Roughly 45 seconds later, Van der Walt tried to add hot air to the envelope and close the rapid deflation valve but was unsuccessful, according to the report.—
Perry Vandell,
AZCentral.com,
25 July 2025
Adjective
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But what if this chimp fashion wasn't entirely pointless?—
Pranjal Malewar,
New Atlas,
19 July 2025
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And with the game in its fifth minute of second-half stoppage time, Acuna picked a fight with Denzel Dumfries, a man far too streetwise to get sucked into such an incredibly pointless altercation.—
Jack Lang,
New York Times,
25 June 2025
Adjective
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Towns and hamlets have been largely pulverized along the front lines and for miles beyond; even American air defenses are mostly useless, because setting them up invites an immediate Russian attack.—
Dexter Filkins,
New Yorker,
14 July 2025
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Apart from evidence, some of the most important testimonies in the case were also deemed useless during the investigation.—
Alex Gurley,
People.com,
12 July 2025
Adjective
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Microsoft is well-positioned to run a redo of Valve's abortive Steam Machines effort, only this time without the performance headaches and limited library of Linux ports that plagued that effort.—
ArsTechnica,
ArsTechnica,
18 June 2025
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In the abortive March 2022 draft deals, Russia even expressed a willingness to return to preinvasion lines.—
Fred Weir,
Christian Science Monitor,
30 May 2025
Adjective
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The position advanced by the states is legally unavailing as a matter of longstanding and well-established law.—
WSJ,
WSJ,
25 July 2018
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Efforts to aid him with lifeboats, three of which were ineffectually trying to breast the heavy sea, were unavailing, while a lifeline, held by a number of rescuers, was carried far out into the surf by a number of swimmers.—
sandiegouniontribune.com,
sandiegouniontribune.com,
6 May 2018
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“Nonproductive.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/nonproductive. Accessed 31 Jul. 2025.
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