nope

Example Sentences

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He tapped each item, saying, “Nope, nope, nope, nope.”

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 15, 2025

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

The feather tickled my hand, but as for making me less nervous, nope, it didn’t do a thing.

From "The Lions of Little Rock" by Kristin Levine