How to Use nondisabled in a Sentence

nondisabled

adjective
  • The rate should be based on a standard with a nondisabled person doing the job.
    — Star Tribune, 2021-07-24
  • Disabled people get pregnant and give birth at the same rates as nondisabled ones.
    — Los Angeles Times, 2021-10-22
  • The nondisabled parents were mostly my own friends or acquaintances.
    — Jessica Slice, The Atlantic, 2025-04-14
  • For us, life presents more daily challenges than for the average nondisabled person.
    — Alex Montoyacommunity Voices Contributor, San Diego Union-Tribune, 2023-03-02
  • About a quarter of the nondisabled volunteers screened for the study didn’t have enough control over their soft palates to use the device.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 2010-08-10
  • Here’s a look at how the performers navigate in ways their nondisabled peers never need to consider.
    — Erik Piepenburg, New York Times, 2017-07-10
  • The episode was a platform for the fab five to teach nondisabled audiences about how integral design is to disabled lives and culture.
    — Alex Haagaard, Quartz, 2019-07-22
  • The device predicts the wrong word less than 3 percent of the time, an error rate on par with nondisabled speakers reading a paragraph aloud.
    — Ingrid Wickelgren, Scientific American, 2024-08-14
  • During the height of lockdown, my nondisabled child’s homework was to connect to another human every day.
    — Aimee Christian, Wired, 2022-02-20
  • This would cause a reckoning for a lot of nondisabled people. P.M.: Thank you for your time today, bro.
    — Pablo Manríquez, The New Republic, 2023-07-11
  • Since the end of first grade, he’s been in a special public school classroom in Brooklyn that integrates disabled and nondisabled kids.
    — Abigail Kramer, ProPublica, 2023-05-04
  • Some were offended by Sia’s choice to cast Ziegler, a nondisabled actor, as an autistic character.
    — Laura Zornosa, chicagotribune.com, 2020-11-23
  • And a good place to start is how nondisabled people can avoid giving unnecessary offense to people with disabilities.
    — Andrew Pulrang, Forbes, 2021-09-26
  • Banished was the feel-good narrative about Keller as a brave soul who broke through at the water pump and went on to make nondisabled people feel grateful for their good fortune.
    — Ellen McGirt, Fortune, 2022-11-15
  • For decades, nondisabled actors have played these characters, which is problematic for several reasons.
    — Christopher Rosa, Glamour, 2020-11-19
  • Maddie Ziegler, a nondisabled actor, portrays a young autistic woman in Sia's upcoming film.
    — Alaina Leary, refinery29.com, 2020-11-23
  • And of that 2% representation rate, about 95% of those disabled characters are played by nondisabled actors.
    — Mickey Rowe, Teen Vogue, 2017-08-08
  • However, change requires taking power from the hands of dominant white, heterosexual, nondisabled and first-world nation groups.
    — Alana Dillette, The Conversation, 2024-02-06
  • In California, about 42% of nondisabled adults on Medi-Cal work full time and an additional 20% work part time.
    — Kff Health News, Oc Register, 2025-04-18
  • According to the Kaiser Family Foundation, 41% of nondisabled adults on Medicaid do not have jobs.
    — Peter Cove, WSJ, 2017-07-04
  • Since Trump's second term began, federal work requirements for nondisabled adults have again been proposed by Congressional Republicans.
    — Thomas G. Moukawsher, MSNBC Newsweek, 2025-04-17
  • Congenitally deaf people don’t get motion sickness, and NASA simply wanted to know how nondisabled astronauts could avoid motion sickness too.
    — WIRED, 2023-09-26
  • As of Friday, the latest iteration could cut Medicaid by hundreds of billions of dollars, including by new work requirements focused on nondisabled adults without dependents.
    — Cayla Bamberger, New York Daily News, 2025-05-18
  • Federal law dictates that students with disabilities, which includes students with certain health impairments, receive their education, to the maximum extent possible, with nondisabled peers.
    — al, 2021-08-16
  • If the audience is larger than five people, then the audience certainly includes disabled and nondisabled people; whether Deaf or Hearing; neurodivergent or neurotypical; in chronic pain or, for the present, pain-free.
    — Constance Grady, Vox, 2018-05-12
  • People with disabilities are half as likely to have a high school diploma as their nondisabled counterparts, and the same holds true for bachelors degrees, according to another report from the Bureau of Labor Statistics.
    — Karin Hitselberger, Good Housekeeping, 2021-03-30
  • These include companion homes, where a person with an intellectual disability moves in with a couple or a family, similar to a foster-care situation, and cluster housing, where clients live in apartment complexes along with nondisabled residents.
    — Josh Kovner, courant.com, 2018-03-23
  • Now, advocates worry that the Trump administration is poised to grant Indiana a long-term extension of the Healthy Indiana expansion — and add a requirement that nondisabled adults work or volunteer 20 hours a week.
    — Phil Galewitz, Washington Post, 2018-02-01
  • Thin, white, nondisabled people will continue to proclaim their body positivity while simultaneously excluding disabled people, fat people and Black people, Indigenous people, and People of Color under the banner of happy and healthy.
    — Your Fat Friend, SELF, 2023-01-09

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