How to Use notional in a Sentence

notional

adjective
  • The notional earnings of the company were close to the actual ones.
  • The dates for such a mission are so notional that NASA did not even include them on its chart.
    — Eric Berger, Ars Technica, 28 Jan. 2022
  • So, this notional bank would be gold itself, right? Maybe.
    — Erika Page, The Christian Science Monitor, 16 Mar. 2023
  • Consider a notional bank that has grown very fast in recent years, as did SVB.
    — Erika Page, The Christian Science Monitor, 16 Mar. 2023
  • The notional value of contracts traded in the first eight hours totaled about $40 million.
    — Time, 11 Dec. 2017
  • The notional value is the trading volume multiplied by the spot price.
    — John Detrixhe, Quartz, 22 Nov. 2021
  • The single button does one thing* – returns you to the home screen, providing a notional reset for the user.
    — Charlie Sorrel, WIRED, 13 Jan. 2011
  • To Trump, whiteness is neither notional nor symbolic but is the very core of his power.
    — Ta-Nehisi Coates, The Atlantic, 7 Sep. 2017
  • That gonzo attitude has a downside on the streets of New York, where space is scarce, tempers flare, and enforcement is notional.
    — Curbed, 25 May 2022
  • The notional value creation from the part-stock, part-cash deal has gone entirely to GKN investors in the premium paid.
    — Chris Hughes | Bloomberg, Washington Post, 6 Sep. 2019
  • The aircraft in the hangar are a mix of current, upcoming, and notional American air power.
    — Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 10 Nov. 2021
  • The token has been highly volatile but appears to be worth billions of dollars of notional value to the Trump family.
    — Jesse Pound, CNBC, 21 Jan. 2025
  • With minor tweaks, that roadmap offered a notional template for Breakthrough Starshot, and Lubin is now one of the project’s key scientists.
    — Lee Billings, Scientific American, 12 Apr. 2016
  • My ideals, and those of the country, weren’t merely notional or aspirational.
    — New York Times, 18 July 2022
  • Shares were trading at around $19 per share Wednesday morning, putting the notional value of the trust’s position at more than $2 billion.
    — Jesse Pound, CNBC, 2 Apr. 2025
  • In its pitch deck, GTX estimated there is a $20 billion market for crypto claims, based on the notional value of those claims.
    — Caitlin Ostroff, WSJ, 16 Jan. 2023
  • Only about a third of the notional $10 billion has been recovered so far, and the bank expects to update affected clients of the likely hit in coming days.
    — Christiaan Hetzner, Fortune, 6 Apr. 2021
  • The House and Senate will pass and then reconcile their own budgets, which will still mostly be a notional document.
    — Zachary B. Wolf, CNN, 28 May 2021
  • The concept of a new civil war is not, in fact, a purely notional or hypothetical one.
    — Win McCormack, The New Republic, 17 June 2021
  • The idea was originally the notional musing of a colleague, but Earl elevated it, making the fin the highlight of the 1948 Cadillac.
    — Patrick Cooke, WSJ, 16 Nov. 2018
  • Even five years ago, it was seen as a largely notional technology.
    — Robinson Meyer, The Atlantic, 15 Dec. 2020
  • Here’s an example of the strange role played by Argentina’s notional wide players.
    — Michael Cox, New York Times, 26 Mar. 2025
  • The notional value of the futures contract traded exceeded $1 billion for the week.
    — Brendan Ahern, Forbes, 22 Oct. 2021
  • This is what Thadeus loves: a test of his store of poetic similes, even if, these days, his poetry-writing is notional.
    — Han Ong, The New Yorker, 12 Jan. 2025
  • Note that the share price of e.l.f. is 26% higher than that of EL, so the notional exposure of one long elf call spread vs one short EL call spread does not offset one another perfectly.
    — Michael Khouw, CNBC, 28 Oct. 2024
  • The Waymo settlement, paid out in Uber shares, valued the company at a notional $72 billion.
    — Carolyn Said, San Francisco Chronicle, 30 Mar. 2018
  • There can’t be a postmortem after most league matches that says only major surgery will solve things sometime in a notional future.
    — Andy Mitten, The Athletic, 21 Feb. 2025
  • Our takeaways: Mr. Trump and his fellow speakers over four days and nights did not pivot, did not shift, did not seek the notional sweet center of American public life.
    — Nicholas Confessore, New York Times, 21 July 2016
  • In the world of cryptocurrency, the past year or so has seen deepening divisions between two notional groups.
    — David Z. Morris, Fortune, 8 Jan. 2020
  • Changes are notional at this point, and the city council will not make a decision without input from citizens, McGrady said.
    — James Whitlow, baltimoresun.com, 1 Sep. 2021

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