noncommercial

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Recent Examples of noncommercial The farm is noncommercial, the USDA said, and the animals weren’t intended for the commercial food supply. Erika Edwards, NBC News, 30 Oct. 2024 That's likely because the appeals court agreed that X was likely to prevail in its First Amendment claims, finding that AB 587 compels noncommercial speech that requires strict scrutiny. Ashley Belanger, Ars Technica, 5 Sep. 2024 That is because the launches have mainly been operated by noncommercial agencies like NASA and have been relatively infrequent. Boone Ashworth, WIRED, 8 Aug. 2024 The impetus for public access television was similar to the ethos of public broadcasting, which sought to create noncommercial and educational television programming in the service of the public interest. Lauren Herold, The Conversation, 4 June 2024 See all Example Sentences for noncommercial 
Recent Examples of Synonyms for noncommercial
Adjective
  • Despite this, menopause was still seen as an unmarketable subject.
    Jane Hanson, Forbes, 24 Oct. 2024
  • So this real country tune, which should have been more popular, and maybe turned into a National Rifle Association theme song, was so unmarketable that not even Yvette Noel-Schure could sell it.
    Armond White, National Review, 28 Feb. 2024
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 22 Feb. 2025.

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