noncooperation

Example Sentences

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Mr. Morales-Ortez was free because prosecutors had dropped new malicious-wounding charges, citing victim noncooperation.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 12, 2026

As recently as the noncooperation movement in 1920-22, women played a far more circumscribed role.

From BBC • Nov. 29, 2025

Obvious forms of noncooperation include boycotts or strikes, but that’s just a beginning.

From Salon • Sep. 30, 2025

Black leather unmistakably communicates noncooperation with a formal or clean-cut dress code; it telegraphs insouciance, skepticism, jadedness.

From Washington Post • Feb. 5, 2023

“We shall say quite frankly that if noncooperation and passive resistance constitute high treason, then we are guilty. But these are plainly not encompassed in the law of treason.”

From "Long Walk to Freedom" by Nelson Mandela