noncooperation

Example Sentences

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Mr. Morales-Ortez was free because prosecutors had dropped new malicious-wounding charges, citing victim noncooperation.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 12, 2026

As recently as the noncooperation movement in 1920-22, women played a far more circumscribed role.

From BBC • Nov. 29, 2025

And while some challenges to power include individual defiance, Sharp argues that, “If the rulers’ power is to be controlled by withdrawing help and obedience, the noncooperation and disobedience must be widespread.”

From Salon • Sep. 30, 2025

Black leather unmistakably communicates noncooperation with a formal or clean-cut dress code; it telegraphs insouciance, skepticism, jadedness.

From Washington Post • Feb. 5, 2023

I again proclaimed that a countrywide campaign of noncooperation would be launched if the state failed to hold such a convention.

From "Long Walk to Freedom" by Nelson Mandela