as in unmarketable
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Recent Examples of noncommercial
Those stations are licensed by the FCC to operate, but are limited to operating as noncommercial educational broadcast stations.
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Melissa Quinn, CBS News, 3 Feb. 2025
The outlets should therefore no longer be qualified as noncommercial educational broadcast stations, according to the book.
—Melissa Quinn, CBS News, 3 Feb. 2025
But the noncommercial publishing model these platforms promote has its challenges.
—Bysofia Moutinho, science.org, 5 Dec. 2024
What might be riskier is buying milk from noncommercial farms, like a vendor at your local farmers market or your neighbor down the street who sells milk or cheese out of their house.
—Jess Craig, Vox, 7 Dec. 2018
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Melissa Quinn, CBS News, 3 Feb. 2025
The outlets should therefore no longer be qualified as noncommercial educational broadcast stations, according to the book.
—Melissa Quinn, CBS News, 3 Feb. 2025
But the noncommercial publishing model these platforms promote has its challenges.
—Bysofia Moutinho, science.org, 5 Dec. 2024
What might be riskier is buying milk from noncommercial farms, like a vendor at your local farmers market or your neighbor down the street who sells milk or cheese out of their house.
—Jess Craig, Vox, 7 Dec. 2018
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for noncommercial
Adjective
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Despite this, menopause was still seen as an unmarketable subject.—
Jane Hanson,
Forbes,
24 Oct. 2024
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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
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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
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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
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His books are frequently both excellent and unsalable.—
Gemma Sieff,
Harper’s Magazine ,
4 Jan. 2022
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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 Apr. 2025.
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