How to Use nonlocal in a Sentence

nonlocal

adjective
  • But how did nonlocal pterosaurs end up in the lagoon?
    — Ashley Strickland, CNN Money, 19 Sep. 2025
  • Theater is both local and nonlocal, and a proper balance needs to be struck.
    — Los Angeles Times, 14 Oct. 2019
  • Physicists broadly agree that black holes require nonlocal effects to make sense.
    — George Musser, Scientific American, 1 Sep. 2022
  • The Postal Service aims to deliver local mail in two days and nonlocal mail in three to five days.
    — Author: Jacob Bogage, Hannah Denham, Anchorage Daily News, 27 Feb. 2021
  • The Postal Service aims to deliver local first-class mail in up to two days, and nonlocal mail in three to five days.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 22 Mar. 2021
  • The researchers failed to identify any offspring of the nonlocal women, for example.
    — Megan Gannon, National Geographic, 10 Oct. 2019
  • So scientists are left with nonlocal observables, quantities whose values depend on many points at once.
    — Steven Carlip, Scientific American, 1 Dec. 2015
  • But these nonlocal funds come with mandates and restrictions with which local authorities must comply.
    — Washington Post, 11 June 2021
  • The new seminaries are reported to provide free tuition and living costs for nonlocal students.
    — Arkansas Online, 1 Dec. 2022
  • Police directed traffic and nonlocal pedestrians down side streets.
    — Los Angeles Times, 14 June 2022
  • Township administrators are asking nonlocal drivers to steer clear of the area if possible.
    — Erin Couch, The Enquirer, 10 July 2022
  • But, predictably, experts disagree on whether nonlocal cellular automata bolster the case for free will.
    — John Horgan, Scientific American, 14 Feb. 2021
  • In effect, braiding ensures that the information in Majorana pairs is no longer localized on any of them but is made nonlocal.
    — Quanta Magazine, 29 Sep. 2021
  • When particles share both local and nonlocal information, how to measure them and extract that information is not so clear.
    — Quanta Magazine, 8 Aug. 2025
  • During the heart of the holiday shipping season, the agency delivered only 38 percent of nonlocal mail on time.
    — Washington Post, 23 Mar. 2021
  • The company planned to choose one local photographer and one nonlocal photographer to photograph the plant’s final days.
    — Angela Velasquez, Footwear News, 7 Aug. 2025
  • While quantum entanglement is complicated, nonlocal games are not.
    — Quanta Magazine, 1 Apr. 2019
  • Mathur and others also argued that the new work implies a nonlocal effect—one that does not propagate through space but jumps from one place to another—to extract information from the black hole.
    — George Musser, Scientific American, 1 Sep. 2022
  • Shanghai is asking companies to dissuade nonlocal employees from returning for several more weeks.
    — Anchorage Daily News, 9 Feb. 2020
  • Instead, the agency would lump the category of mail — which includes letters, magazines, catalogs among others — into the same three- to five-day window as nonlocal mail.
    — NBC News, 24 Feb. 2021
  • At the end of December, only 38 percent of nonlocal first-class mail was delivered on-time, compared with close to 90 percent the year before.
    — Washington Post, 4 Mar. 2021
  • One of the challenges of investing in Brooklyn for nonlocal investors is to realize the opportunity and what is developing at the ground level.
    — Remy Raisner, Forbes, 28 Dec. 2021
  • This balloons the complexity of both the measurements and the mathematical hoops that the scientists must jump through to prove the nonlocal relationship of the three particles.
    — Quanta Magazine, 24 Oct. 2022
  • Indeed, Giddings has recently been arguing for a nonlocal interaction that transfers bits from the inside of the black hole to a macroscopic distance outside.
    — Sean Carroll, Discover Magazine, 27 Sep. 2012
  • The Saturday market, criticized by some for selling too much nonlocal produce and Wisconsin cheeses, still sells plenty of Iowa sweet corn, local jam and hot sauce.
    — Melanie D.g. Kaplan / Washington Post, Twin Cities, 20 Aug. 2019
  • The government in Warsaw has barred all nonlocal residents, including journalists and doctors, from approaching the border.
    — New York Times, 14 Nov. 2021
  • The effects lingered into the holiday season when, as coronavirus infections sidelined a significant chunk of the postal workforce, on-time rates for nonlocal mail dropped to 38 percent, a historic low.
    — Washington Post, 19 Nov. 2021
  • The report noted that local news publishers had gotten a bigger boost in traffic than nonlocal outlets, reflecting users’ interest in how the virus is affecting their immediate communities.
    — Kevin Roose, New York Times, 23 Mar. 2020
  • Also, the breakdown that is needed is subtle and difficult to implement, a `transfer of entanglement' (this is particularly a problem for the nonlocal interaction idea).
    — Sean Carroll, Discover Magazine, 27 Sep. 2012
  • The plan also says too little road space in the District is dedicated to non-car travel and calls for every nonlocal street in the city to include at least one lane for bicycles, buses or some purpose other than single-occupancy cars.
    — Washington Post, 2 May 2021

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