nonnegotiable

Example Sentences

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When you pressure people with massive, nonnegotiable expenses—energy costs 70% above the U.S. average and the nation’s seventh-highest median home prices—they have to cut costs in other ways.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 31, 2026

“In finance, precision is nonnegotiable and hallucinations are a deal breaker,” said JP Suh, a product manager on Google’s DeepMind team who was involved in developing Sky.

From Barron's • Apr. 22, 2026

All of this makes medical care a nonnegotiable, highly expensive commodity.

From MarketWatch • Jan. 26, 2026

They spend an average of 3.7 hours per week on necessary caregiving, like changing diapers; dads without a college degree do just 1.9 hours per week of that kind of nonnegotiable labor.

From Slate • Sep. 13, 2025

“We’ll discuss that in the morning,” Mama said in her nonnegotiable voice, herding us out of the room by flipping off the lights.

From "In the Time of the Butterflies" by Julia Alvarez