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as in titular
being something in name or form only
he was the nominal head of state—everyone knew the country was actually run by one of his advisers
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as in slight
so small or unimportant as to warrant little or no attention
when you pay $400 for an airline ticket, a ticketing fee of five dollars seems nominal
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Recent Examples of nominal
The Editors, National Review, 27 Nov. 2024
The deal called for DirecTV to pay a nominal $1 for equity and required Dish's bondholders to swap $9.75 billion of existing debt into roughly $8 billion of new bonds, essentially asking them to take a 20% haircut.
—Tim Baysinger, Axios, 21 Nov. 2024
The sponsor's fee is set at an annual nominal rate of 0.40% of the euro in the Trust.
—Quartz Bot, Quartz, 7 Nov. 2024
And, on a more abstract level, a 4.2% 10-year yield isn’t out of line with a U.S. economy now operating at a 5.5% nominal GDP growth pace (based on current GDP tracking models and prevailing headline inflation rates).
—Michael Santoli, CNBC, 26 Oct. 2024
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Quickly, the nominal legal limits on suicide are tossed aside.
—The Editors, National Review, 27 Nov. 2024
The deal called for DirecTV to pay a nominal $1 for equity and required Dish's bondholders to swap $9.75 billion of existing debt into roughly $8 billion of new bonds, essentially asking them to take a 20% haircut.
—Tim Baysinger, Axios, 21 Nov. 2024
The sponsor's fee is set at an annual nominal rate of 0.40% of the euro in the Trust.
—Quartz Bot, Quartz, 7 Nov. 2024
And, on a more abstract level, a 4.2% 10-year yield isn’t out of line with a U.S. economy now operating at a 5.5% nominal GDP growth pace (based on current GDP tracking models and prevailing headline inflation rates).
—Michael Santoli, CNBC, 26 Oct. 2024
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The titular novel focuses on a group of male lumberjacks who decide to throw a dance party in which some of the workers volunteer to attend as women, leading to an unlikely rivalry.Shannon Carlin, TIME, 17 Dec. 2024
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They’re both murdered, but Eric ends up in purgatory, where a spirit guide explains a titular bird took pity on his tragedy, giving him the chance to return from the dead, kill his assailant, and be reunited with Zadie.Nicholas Bell, SPIN, 17 Dec. 2024
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As a result, Goose will always have a slight limp because his leg is now a bit shorter.Joy Jackson , Eula Calahan, arkansasonline.com, 8 Dec. 2024
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Although the slippers looked nearly identical, a consultant for the Smithsonian analyzed slight differences in the pairs and determined that the ones that were sold on Saturday were in many of the most famous scenes of the movie.Hank Sanders, New York Times, 8 Dec. 2024
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First Acts: From the symbolic to the substantive, here is a look at what nine new governors elected last year have done in their first weeks in office.Maggie Astor, New York Times, 30 Jan. 2023
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With his substantive, agreeably granular bass, David Grogan gave prophetic warnings real authority.Dallas News, Dallas News, 23 Dec. 2022
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To Georgia, the cost of guarantee games is negligible: its coach, Kirby Smart, has a salary bigger than UMass’s entire budget.Louisa Thomas, The New Yorker, 1 Dec. 2024
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Of that sum, traditional album sales contribute 1,000, streaming activity comprises 66,000 units, while the remaining negligible number of units stem from track-equivalent album units.Pamela Bustios, Billboard, 25 Nov. 2024
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The rock, ringed with black and marked by distinctive white veins and dozens of tiny bright spots, was discovered as Perseverance explored a quarter-mile-wide valley called Neretva Vallis.Eric Lagatta, USA TODAY, 18 Dec. 2024
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In this apartment remodel, Project AZ knocked down a wall that once created a very tiny kitchen.Rachel Davies, Architectural Digest, 17 Dec. 2024
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My understanding has always been that the relic trade is loosely tolerated by the powers that be (many of whom have some pretty choice relics of their own), because one of the sneakiest ways authoritarian societies thrive is by letting their subjects get away with petty rebellions.Noel Murray, Vulture, 13 Dec. 2024
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As our profile lays out, the record reveals Billy Wagner as a blustery, bigger-than-life figure who engaged in petty crime and coached his family to do the same.Patricia Gallagher Newberry, The Enquirer, 12 Dec. 2024
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“Nominal.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/nominal. Accessed 22 Dec. 2024.
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