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Recent Examples of nonstarter
But Republicans are making clear that’s a nonstarter.
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Kevin Freking, Los Angeles Times, 1 Mar. 2025
And given the brutal physical nature of football, adding an extra game that doesn't lead to the Super Bowl is probably a nonstarter.
—David K. Li, NBC News, 28 Feb. 2025
As a practical and political matter, the idea is a nonstarter.
—Hussein Ibish, The Atlantic, 27 Feb. 2025
Conversations around the 51st state are a nonstarter.
—David Faris, Newsweek, 27 Feb. 2025
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Kevin Freking, Los Angeles Times, 1 Mar. 2025
And given the brutal physical nature of football, adding an extra game that doesn't lead to the Super Bowl is probably a nonstarter.
—David K. Li, NBC News, 28 Feb. 2025
As a practical and political matter, the idea is a nonstarter.
—Hussein Ibish, The Atlantic, 27 Feb. 2025
Conversations around the 51st state are a nonstarter.
—David Faris, Newsweek, 27 Feb. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for nonstarter
Noun
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The loser of Friday’s game in Atlanta enters the offseason.—
Anthony Chiang,
Miami Herald,
17 Apr. 2025
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The winner will then play the loser of Tuesday’s No. 7 vs. No. 8 matchup, and whoever wins that game will become the East’s No. 8 seed and face the Cleveland Cavaliers in the playoffs.—
Peter Sblendorio,
New York Daily News,
14 Apr. 2025
Noun
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The 101 Ash Street fiasco and the 25% wage increase given to city workers a few years ago both led to this mess.—
U T Readers,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
13 Apr. 2025
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The fiasco has raised concerns about the company’s claims about its models’ performance being potentially misleading and points to the fact that these benchmarks aren’t always a reliable measure for AI’s capabilities.—
Rashi Shrivastava,
Forbes.com,
8 Apr. 2025
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With the three-day washout in stocks continuing Monday, traders were still expecting the central bank to wait until June before its next interest rate cut.—
Jeff Cox,
CNBC,
7 Apr. 2025
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Cinema Saviours After years of the washout of the Covid years, the appearance of Oppenheimer and Barbie, appearing in cinemas at the same time gave us the much talked about ‘Barbenheimer’ phenomenon, with many people choosing to see both films on the same day.—
Benny Har-Even,
Forbes,
28 Feb. 2025
Noun
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After severe storms hit the state in mid-March, Sanders applied for disaster relief through FEMA, under what's known as a major disaster declaration.—
Luke Barr,
ABC News,
23 Apr. 2025
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The march happened after more disasters caused by climate change and pollution impacted the country.—
Julia Gomez,
USA Today,
23 Apr. 2025
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The media personality and entrepreneur wore a butter yellow latex dress with a body-con silhouette and a low-cut neckline, paired with summer-ready flip flops.—
Renan Botelho,
Footwear News,
12 Apr. 2025
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White House advisors claimed the flip flop was always the strategy, suggesting that the past week of massive tariffs that triggered huge market losses was all for show.—
Dan Mangan,Kevin Breuninger,Jeff Cox,Christina Wilkie,Erin Doherty,Ruxandra Iordache,
CNBC,
9 Apr. 2025
Noun
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The announcement comes after two years of trying to launch a second Fyre Festival to follow the 2017 debacle that landed him in prison for four years.—
Brian Niemietz,
New York Daily News,
23 Apr. 2025
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Harry and Meghan have fully re-entered public life this year with As Ever, Netflix show The fundraising debacle coincides with the Duke and Duchess of Sussex's return to public life five years after stepping back as British working royals in January 2020.—
Sophie Carson,
USA Today,
21 Apr. 2025
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Led by Bruce Willis, Armageddon follows the story of NASA enlisting a group of oil drillers to fly into space, land on a massive asteroid that’s hurtling towards Earth, drill into the rock and insert a nuclear bomb to destroy it.—
Jen Juneau,
People.com,
23 Apr. 2025
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Investigations revealed assailants had used a sticky bomb to ignite the fire, causing 4 pilgrim deaths and over 20 injuries.—
Ross Rosenfeld,
MSNBC Newsweek,
23 Apr. 2025
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Meanwhile, whisk together lemon juice, oil, honey, salt, mustard, and pepper in a large bowl.—
Catherine Jessee,
Southern Living,
27 Apr. 2025
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While the vegetables are in the oven, mix together olive oil, lemon juice, Italian seasoning, garlic, 1 tsp.—
Jennifer Shanker,
Flow Space,
25 Apr. 2025
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“Nonstarter.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/nonstarter. Accessed 2 May. 2025.
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