How to Use nontrivial in a Sentence

nontrivial

adjective
  • That said, the barriers to entry are nontrivial.
    — Alfonso Cahero, Forbes.com, 11 Aug. 2025
  • Still, the scale of available energy is nontrivial.
    — Anna Broughel, Forbes.com, 31 May 2026
  • At least as things currently stand, that’s having a nontrivial effect on emissions.
    — David Roberts, Vox, 27 Apr. 2018
  • Some of those pairs could wind up hitting the resale market for a nontrivial price, which will be worth looking out for if cost isn’t a concern.
    — Ian Servantes, Footwear News, 11 Feb. 2026
  • This was the first nontrivial answer anybody provided to why the Kelvin wave should exist.
    — Katie McCormick, Quanta Magazine, 18 July 2023
  • To cover the sport is to know of a nontrivial number of players who wouldn’t cross the street to pour water on a fellow pro who erupted in flames.
    — New York Times, 16 June 2021
  • The upshot of course is the temporary but nontrivial spike in consumer prices – inflation – that has so many worried right now.
    — Robert Hockett, Forbes, 12 Nov. 2021
  • The simplest torus knot — indeed, the simplest nontrivial knot, period — is called a trefoil.
    — Kevin Hartnett, Quanta Magazine, 5 Jan. 2024
  • There’s also a nontrivial risk that ungoverned AI returns our kids or our kids’ kids to hunter-gatherer status.
    — Ryan Craig, Forbes.com, 23 Jan. 2026
  • Building out the infrastructure to run AI models in production and at scale is nontrivial.
    — Pete Hanlon, Forbes, 11 Aug. 2022
  • Launches such as these are often targeted to local skate shops, but there’s a nontrivial chance the sneakers wind up on Costco’s website and/or in its stores.
    — Ian Servantes, Footwear News, 3 Sep. 2019
  • Though simple for a human to grasp, this concept is nontrivial for a computer to learn and thus would require inordinate amounts of training data and time.
    — Somdeb Majumdar, IEEE Spectrum, 21 Nov. 2024
  • This implies that there are many, many nontrivial cohomology classes to be uncovered within each moduli space.
    — Leila Sloman, Quanta Magazine, 16 Feb. 2023
  • One nontrivial risk that should concern public-health officials is that side effects from Covid shots could make children and parents wary of other vaccines.
    — Allysia Finley, WSJ, 20 Mar. 2022
  • First, energy savings are nontrivial.
    — Srishti Gupta, Interesting Engineering, 27 Nov. 2025
  • One nontrivial problem with Coon’s theory, and all attempts to make race into an evolutionary unit, is that there is no evidence.
    — Alan Goodman, Discover Magazine, 25 June 2020
  • There is also the nontrivial problem of spam, which engineers seem unsure of how to tackle, and Musk seems unconcerned about, according to the source.
    — Kylie Robison, Fortune, 12 Apr. 2024
  • This is, however, a nontrivial problem and needs careful supervision.
    — Amber Nigam, Forbes.com, 24 Feb. 2026
  • Achieving this level of standardization and cross-compatibility is a nontrivial task that can slow down adoption.
    — Ayush Gupta, Forbes, 6 Dec. 2024
  • In the world of telecommunications, malicious actors face a nontrivial challenge.
    — David Balaban, Forbes, 31 Jan. 2022
  • So even if a wealth tax survived a vigorous national debate and made it through Congress, the odds against it getting past the Supreme Court would be nontrivial.
    — Geoff Colvin, Fortune, 2 Apr. 2021
  • The challenge of writing software that interacts with multiple chains in a safe manner is nontrivial, and only a limited number of tools and techniques can test the soundness of the code.
    — Dan Goodin, Ars Technica, 4 Feb. 2022
  • These fundamental differences mean that before Meta can safely switch all of its platforms to end-to-end encryption, its apps must undergo some nontrivial changes.
    — David Thiel, Wired, 3 Dec. 2021
  • But few would contest that the relationship between a president and his top employees is a subject of nontrivial global significance.
    — Matt Flegenheimer, New York Times, 4 Oct. 2017
  • Riemann conjectured that all the other zeros of the function, called nontrivial zeros, have a real part of 1/2, and so are located on this vertical line.
    — Jordana Cepelewicz, WIRED, 4 Aug. 2024
  • To change the ranking to favor true stories over false ones, say, the platforms would need a way to systematically judge everything that gets shared, or at least everything that gets shared a nontrivial amount.
    — Gilad Edelman, Wired, 1 Sep. 2021
  • The manic energy is surely intentional, at least insofar as puberty works up nontrivial surges of eros and frenetic drive that need to get displaced somewhere.
    — Jane Hu, The New Yorker, 31 Mar. 2022
  • When taken in nontrivial amounts, the mushrooms are powerful, temporarily changing consciousness in profound ways.
    — Kevin Matthews, The Denver Post, 17 June 2019
  • While estimates regarding the scale and type of roles that will be affected vary, the consensus is that AI's impact will be nontrivial and demand adaption.
    — Hugh Cameron, MSNBC Newsweek, 17 Sep. 2025
  • Mathematicians already know that the nontrivial zeta zeros are confined between 0 and 1.
    — Byzack Savitsky, science.org, 29 July 2024

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