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

And then you realize, nope there's a time and a place for everything and if you keep hustling, it will come to you.

From Salon • Aug. 18, 2024

It would be one thing if the lesson were that his lovingly designed handicrafts proved more rewarding than the magic mountain of self-adulation represented by the “12 Days” tree, but nope.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 30, 2023

“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