How to Use fungible in a Sentence

fungible

adjective
  • The first step is to have or make something that can be turned into a non-fungible token.
    Mythili Devarakonda, USA TODAY, 19 Nov. 2022
  • Love it or hate it, GameStop is going all in on non-fungible tokens.
    Michael Kan, PCMAG, 3 Feb. 2022
  • Nor have the non-fungible tokens that form the backbone of Bored & Hungry’s brand been immune.
    oregonlive, 26 June 2022
  • Some of those figures seemed fungible because there were no price tags.
    Curbed, 28 Sep. 2022
  • Kyrychuk said the plan is to sell them as NFTs (non-fungible tokens) to raise charitable funds for Ukraine.
    CNN, 18 Mar. 2022
  • The apes are NFTs, or non-fungible tokens, which means that every ape is a unique item with a single owner.
    Fortune, 18 Mar. 2022
  • And in true 2022 style, the new dancing babies will be released as NFTs, or non-fungible tokens, next week.
    CNN, 5 May 2022
  • NFTs, or non-fungible tokens, are a type of digital asset that is stored on a blockchain.
    Tony M Fountain, Rolling Stone, 14 Apr. 2022
  • Now, online scams have reached the lucrative world of non-fungible tokens (NFTs) -- and a group of tech sleuths are fighting back.
    Laura Romero, ABC News, 20 Apr. 2022
  • And oil is fungible, so American consumers will feel it as well.
    David Meyer, Fortune, 25 Feb. 2022
  • As the name suggests, an NFT is a token (an object that can be used to represent something else) that isn't fungible.
    Bernard Marr, Forbes, 11 July 2022
  • Money is fungible, and no doubt oligarchs and siloviki are right now shuffling quite a lot of it to avoid detection.
    Timothy Noah, The New Republic, 16 Mar. 2022
  • In the world of non-fungible tokens, the marketplace that was almost called etherBay, OpenSea, has become the go-to shop for digital collectibles.
    Declan Harty, Fortune, 31 Mar. 2022
  • Web3 is the buzzy term given to a range of online services and mobile apps built on the blockchain, including cryptos and non-fungible tokens.
    Alain Sherter, CBS News, 28 Jan. 2022
  • The arrangement would have involved sponsorship of Swift’s tour and the issuance of tickets in the form of non-fungible tokens, among other tie-ins.
    Jacob Carpenter, Fortune, 7 Dec. 2022
  • That is, of course, according to the somewhat fungible notion of what constitutes a view at Netflix.
    Andy Meek, BGR, 20 July 2022
  • Other than the ball, which no player really owns, no piece of baseball equipment is as fungible as a pair of batting gloves.
    Zach Buchanan, New York Times, 25 Aug. 2023
  • But of course, this isn’t just any bottle of champagne—this one comes with NFTs, or non-fungible tokens, digital assets that can be bought or sold.
    Alena Botros, Fortune, 13 July 2022
  • Donald Trump and his enablers have spent the past year and a half attempting to argue that the facts of January 6 are fungible; that the truth of the insurrection is in the eye of the beholder.
    Megan Garber, The Atlantic, 11 June 2022
  • Dolly Parton is the latest celebrity to make her foray into the world of non-fungible tokens (NFTs).
    Chelsey Sanchez, Harper's BAZAAR, 3 Mar. 2022
  • For the unversed, a non-fungible token, or NFT, is a unique digital asset that can be securely stored or traded on the blockchain.
    Rachel Cormack, Robb Report, 13 Jan. 2022
  • In less than a year, Augminted has grown to about 20 employees in the nascent fields of cryptocurrencies, non-fungible tokens, and Web 3.0.
    Rick Barrett, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 4 May 2022
  • Yang emphasized that investors in non-fungible tokens are also crypto traders in the IRS' eyes.
    Irina Ivanova, CBS News, 13 Apr. 2022
  • Stars can bring one to two guests on the studio dime and a personal publicist, but that number is fungible, and the bigger the actor, the larger the retinue of handlers and hangers-on.
    Elsa Keslassy, Variety, 1 Mar. 2023
  • In October 2021, his West Loop mural was tied to an auction of a non-fungible token of the monochromatic artwork.
    Tatyana Turner, Chicago Tribune, 27 Oct. 2022
  • The creation of non-fungible tokens (NFTs) exploded in 2021.
    Jennifer Thomas, Fortune, 10 Feb. 2022
  • Visbal plans to release a non-fungible token tied to the statue, in part to defray her legal expenses.
    Sheelah Kolhatkar, The New Yorker, 7 Jan. 2022
  • But these examples are rooted in the fungible power of celebrity.
    Vulture, 22 Sep. 2022
  • Behind every great fortune is a great crime, according to an adage attributed to Balzac—but, unlike the money, the crimes are not fungible.
    Andrew Marantz, The New Yorker, 7 Aug. 2023
  • NFTs, or non-fungible tokens, are digital assets that are tied to its owner.
    Ken Tran, USA TODAY, 16 Dec. 2022

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