How to Use notional in a Sentence

notional

adjective

• The notional earnings of the company were close to the actual ones.
• The dates for such a mission are so notional that NASA did not even include them on its chart.
  — Eric Berger, Ars Technica, 28 Jan. 2022
• So, this notional bank would be gold itself, right? Maybe.
  — Erika Page, The Christian Science Monitor, 16 Mar. 2023
• Consider a notional bank that has grown very fast in recent years, as did SVB.
  — Erika Page, The Christian Science Monitor, 16 Mar. 2023
• The notional value of contracts traded in the first eight hours totaled about $40 million.
  — Time, 11 Dec. 2017
• The notional value is the trading volume multiplied by the spot price.
  — John Detrixhe, Quartz, 22 Nov. 2021
• The single button does one thing* – returns you to the home screen, providing a notional reset for the user.
  — Charlie Sorrel, WIRED, 13 Jan. 2011
• To Trump, whiteness is neither notional nor symbolic but is the very core of his power.
  — Ta-Nehisi Coates, The Atlantic, 7 Sep. 2017
• That gonzo attitude has a downside on the streets of New York, where space is scarce, tempers flare, and enforcement is notional.
  — Curbed, 25 May 2022
• The notional value creation from the part-stock, part-cash deal has gone entirely to GKN investors in the premium paid.
  — Chris Hughes | Bloomberg, Washington Post, 6 Sep. 2019
• The aircraft in the hangar are a mix of current, upcoming, and notional American air power.
  — Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 10 Nov. 2021
• With minor tweaks, that roadmap offered a notional template for Breakthrough Starshot, and Lubin is now one of the project’s key scientists.
  — Lee Billings, Scientific American, 12 Apr. 2016
• My ideals, and those of the country, weren’t merely notional or aspirational.
  — New York Times, 18 July 2022
• In its pitch deck, GTX estimated there is a $20 billion market for crypto claims, based on the notional value of those claims.
  — Caitlin Ostroff, WSJ, 16 Jan. 2023
• Only about a third of the notional $10 billion has been recovered so far, and the bank expects to update affected clients of the likely hit in coming days.
  — Christiaan Hetzner, Fortune, 6 Apr. 2021
• The House and Senate will pass and then reconcile their own budgets, which will still mostly be a notional document.
  — Zachary B. Wolf, CNN, 28 May 2021
• The concept of a new civil war is not, in fact, a purely notional or hypothetical one.
  — Win McCormack, The New Republic, 17 June 2021
• The idea was originally the notional musing of a colleague, but Earl elevated it, making the fin the highlight of the 1948 Cadillac.
  — Patrick Cooke, WSJ, 16 Nov. 2018
• Even five years ago, it was seen as a largely notional technology.
  — Robinson Meyer, The Atlantic, 15 Dec. 2020
• The notional value of the futures contract traded exceeded $1 billion for the week.
  — Brendan Ahern, Forbes, 22 Oct. 2021
• The Waymo settlement, paid out in Uber shares, valued the company at a notional $72 billion.
  — Carolyn Said, San Francisco Chronicle, 30 Mar. 2018
• Our takeaways: Mr. Trump and his fellow speakers over four days and nights did not pivot, did not shift, did not seek the notional sweet center of American public life.
  — Nicholas Confessore, New York Times, 21 July 2016
• In the world of cryptocurrency, the past year or so has seen deepening divisions between two notional groups.
  — David Z. Morris, Fortune, 8 Jan. 2020
• Changes are notional at this point, and the city council will not make a decision without input from citizens, McGrady said.
  — James Whitlow, baltimoresun.com, 1 Sep. 2021
• As of now, this idealized future of tamed corporate power is a notional one.
  — Jacob Silverman, The New Republic, 21 July 2021
• Eifert estimated that the notional value of all the trading flow to be more than $50 billion with a few billion dollars spent on the premiums, or option cost.
  — Pavel Alpeyev, Bloomberg.com, 11 Sep. 2020
• With, perhaps, a shard of a chiffon scarf thrown over the shoulders for good measure — and a gold or silver carwash skirt, or at least notional skirt, belted atop, like a cancan dancer on her way to a board meeting.
  — Vanessa Friedman, New York Times, 22 Sep. 2023
• Members of this notional committee tell us there's no hidden hand — no command and control.
  — Axios, 12 July 2024
• Investors pay a small premium to buy options, giving them exposure to a much larger notional amount of shares.
  — Liz Hoffman, WSJ, 4 Sep. 2020
• The results are based on the trading platform’s customer notional net percentage buy/sell behavior for stocks that comprise the S&P 500 sectors.
  — Beth Greenfield, Fortune, 2 July 2024

Last Updated: 17 Dec 2024