noncommercial

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Recent Examples of noncommercial Prior to the latest allegations, Escamilla was facing misdemeanor charges in a February incident in the San Fernando Valley including trespass, entering a noncommercial dwelling and resisting arrest and was free on $10,000 bail. Richard Winton, Los Angeles Times, 9 May 2025 Donors, tax dollars plug holes Public media outlets are only one prong of an increasingly noncommercial local news system. Matthew Powers, The Conversation, 6 May 2025 Communication is critical for any successful relationship—whether commercial or noncommercial. Majeed Javdani, Forbes.com, 1 May 2025 Those stations are licensed by the FCC to operate, but are limited to operating as noncommercial educational broadcast stations. Melissa Quinn, CBS News, 29 Apr. 2025 See All Example Sentences for noncommercial
Recent Examples of Synonyms for noncommercial
Adjective
  • However, the unintended fallout is this: Entire communities have become unmarketable overnight, property values are plummeting, and average Floridians are stuck, unable to sell, refinance or move.
    Peter S. Sachs, Sun Sentinel, 6 July 2025
  • This fragmentation resulted in an unmarketable product.
    Philip Brittan, Forbes.com, 23 May 2025
Adjective
  • Despite a seemingly uncommercial script full of ambiguous menace that constantly intimated and never confirmed that supernatural forces were in play, The Witch earned more than ten times its $4 million budget.
    Matt Zoller Seitz, Vulture, 14 Jan. 2025
  • Never has an album this uncommercial blossomed into a structurally experimental musical and succeeded with Broadway crowds and critics, nabbing four 2024 Tony nominations, including best musical.
    Joe Lynch, Billboard, 22 May 2024
Adjective
  • His books are frequently both excellent and unsalable.
    Gemma Sieff, Harper’s Magazine , 4 Jan. 2022
  • Guston retreated to his home and studio in Woodstock, New York, returned to teaching, and spent his last, enormously productive decade churning out mad, masterful, largely unsalable paintings of people and things behaving badly.
    Susan Tallman, The New York Review of Books, 14 Jan. 2021

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“Noncommercial.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/noncommercial. Accessed 19 Jul. 2025.

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