nope

Example Sentences

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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

He found a Dan Williams in the nearby town of La Honda — but, nope, the screws weren’t his.

From Seattle Times • Feb. 17, 2024

“Nope, you didn’t know there’s a story with that name, or nope, that’s not what this place is named after?”

From "Book Scavenger" by Jennifer Chambliss Bertman