notional
Example Sentences
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England began a baking final day with scant hope of an escape, resuming on 182-5, chasing a notional 463.
From BBC ● Jun. 21, 2026
U.S. notional volume of levered ETFs is about $90 billion, up from almost nothing a decade ago, per Goldman Sachs data.
From Barron's ● Jun. 17, 2026
But this is all fictional, or notional if you want to be polite.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 11, 2026
Equity notional trading volumes on the platform rose 54% in the first quarter from a year earlier, while trading in options contracts climbed 17%.
From MarketWatch ● Apr. 29, 2026
In order to give particles any mass at all we have to introduce the notional Higgs boson; whether it actually exists is a matter for twenty-first-century physics.
From "A Short History of Nearly Everything" by Bill Bryson
