nope
Example Sentences
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Like in “Stop Making Sense”? There’s some stuff in there where I go, nope, can’t do that.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 27, 2026
Ole Miss said nope and promoted defensive coordinator Keith Golding to the head coach job; Kiffin publicly expressed his disappointment that the school rejected his request.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 1, 2025
In its post, the company says it will let certain models of Claude nope out in “rare, extreme cases of persistently harmful or abusive user interactions.”
From Slate ● Aug. 20, 2025
Because one day you're feeling like this, and the next day society is like, "Psych, nope, actually, you got to start from the beginning."
From Salon ● Dec. 25, 2024
They go check things out rather than packing up their stuff, giving a big ol’ nope, and leaving.
From "Kwame Crashes the Underworld" by Craig Kofi Farmer
