How to Use noneconomic in a Sentence

noneconomic

adjective
  • State regimes profited from the arts in noneconomic ways as well.
    — Diedrich Diederichsen, Artforum, 1 Dec. 2025
  • The two sides also agreed on several key noneconomic issues, such as heat safety.
    — Noam Scheiber, New York Times, 25 July 2023
  • The cap applies to noneconomic damages, such as loss of companionship, in all adult wrongful death claims.
    — Cary Spivak, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 8 Feb. 2018
  • Yang’s very language highlights the noneconomic benefits of work.
    — Matthew Continetti, National Review, 25 July 2019
  • Without payments for noneconomic damages, some victims stand to get little from the claims office.
    — Patrick Lohmann, ProPublica, 4 Jan. 2024
  • This timely book describes how governments use trade policy to achieve noneconomic ends.
    — Ken Heydon, Foreign Affairs, 23 Apr. 2024
  • Experts agree that the unions are finding newfound success because of worker anger about noneconomic issues.
    — Chris Isidore, CNN, 11 Sep. 2022
  • Plaintiffs in a lawsuit now pending in state court are seeking noneconomic damages for a different wildfire.
    — Patrick Lohmann, ProPublica, 4 Jan. 2024
  • And there are, of course, a whole bunch of noneconomic reasons people don't move, including wanting to remain close to family and friends.
    — Greg Rosalsky, NPR, 11 Feb. 2025
  • Court papers said $15 million was awarded in noneconomic damages.
    — Justin Muszynski, Hartford Courant, 11 Apr. 2026
  • However, noneconomic factors like childcare challenges, job burnout and concerns about the virus still may keep some people out of the workforce.
    — Phillip Molnar, San Diego Union-Tribune, 27 Aug. 2021
  • Most of the costs were monetary, but the benefits included several noneconomic ones as well. Take a proposal to promote wetland conservation in the Sundarbans, a vast mangrove forest on the coast of the Bay of Bengal.
    — Bjorn Lomborg, Foreign Affairs, 15 Aug. 2017
  • That stance has already yielded accords on numerous noneconomic issues.
    — Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 21 June 2023
  • Of the total damages, the jury awarded $3 million for noneconomic loss for the personal injury claim.
    — Judy L. Thomas, Kansas City Star, 29 Apr. 2026
  • Lemon is seeking economic, noneconomic, and punitive damages.
    — Gaby Del Valle, The Verge, 1 Aug. 2024
  • In the focus groups, noneconomic issues came up occasionally.
    — David Lauter, Los Angeles Times, 21 Sep. 2024
  • Perhaps the key way of doing this is to restore collectively meaningful, noneconomic incentives for the creation of art.
    — W. David Marx, The Atlantic, 25 Nov. 2025
  • All of the humanities and the noneconomic social sciences in universities have a simple message.
    — WSJ, 11 June 2017
  • The $10 million in noneconomic damages was for issues including pain and suffering and mental anguish.
    — Judy L. Thomas, Kansas City Star, 29 Apr. 2026
  • Dundon is seeking unspecified noneconomic, economic and punitive damages in the suit.
    — oregonlive, 22 Apr. 2022
  • Now Washington must become multilingual—to learn to examine noneconomic problems from other points of view.
    — Timothy Noah, The New Republic, 25 Oct. 2022
  • Among the noneconomic issues the company and the unionized workers see eye-to-eye on is giving drivers 24 hours notice before a supervisor ride along.
    — Ananya Bhattacharya, Quartz, 7 July 2023
  • No previous election has featured an incumbent running amid an abrupt election-year economic collapse, stemming from noneconomic factors, along with a strong stock market.
    — Dan McLaughlin, National Review, 3 Sep. 2020
  • In the past decade, many executives, like the country at large, have moved in Democrats’ direction on noneconomic issues such as immigration, race, gay and transgender rights, and climate.
    — Greg Ip and Ken Thomas, WSJ, 25 Oct. 2020
  • The suit alleges that the teen's death resulted from Lane County's negligence and seeks unspecified economic and noneconomic damages.
    — Maxine Bernstein, OregonLive.com, 28 Mar. 2018
  • Yet despite these gestures, there has been little progress on most of the union’s top noneconomic priorities, such as grievance procedures, and the company has sought broad contract provisions that could substantially weaken the union.
    — Noam Scheiber, New York Times, 22 May 2023
  • Ly seeks damages for medical expenses, loss of earnings, loss of earning capacity and further economic and noneconomic damages as determined during trial, according to the complaint.
    — Corey Schmidt, Sacbee.com, 7 Apr. 2026
  • Caps on Damages Another path these laws have taken is to cap the amount of noneconomic damages awarded to plaintiffs — compensation for losses that, unlike medical bills or wages, cannot be easily measured, such as the loss of a child.
    — James O’Donnell, ProPublica, 12 July 2023
  • The plaintiffs, referred to as Jane Doe 1, 2, 3 and 4, are requesting a jury trial and monetary damages and damages for pain, suffering, emotional distress, loss of enjoyment of life, and other noneconomic damages.
    — Lauren Hernández, SFChronicle.com, 19 July 2019
  • During closing arguments, Lynn Johnson, an attorney for Christine and Christopher Nolte, suggested the jury award $10 million for noneconomic damages and $5 million for economic damages.
    — Judy L. Thomas, Kansas City Star, 29 Apr. 2026

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