How To Use Fungible In A Sentence

  • We had a little bit of a blind spot in that we always thought that smartness was fungible into whatever needed to be done, because a few of our early employees were like that.
  • I know enough about the appropriations process to know that federal money isn't entirely fungible, but I think this is a valid question because of the enormous debt we have taken on in order to liberate Iraq.
  • Many poets seem threatened by the apparently easily appropriated and fungible modes of prose and prosaic rationality.
  • It is true, as I concede in the essay, that money is fungible.
  • Petroleum is fungible or freely exchangeable, and cannot be ‘controlled.’
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  • The financial industry is clearly on the leading edge of moving toward e-commerce as a solution; and with fungible products such as insurance or money, it is a perfect e-commerce candidate.
  • A group of pre-pubescent children are playing hunt-and-seek with their big-eyed pet companions, brandishing makeshift spears and automatic rifles -- there's no danger here, for bodies are fungible, rebuilt in a minute by the assembler/disassembler gates in every room. Asimov's Science Fiction
  • The Court reasoned that since money is fungible, government funding for secular purposes could be used by religious organizations for sectarian ends.
  • These homes are what economists like to call fungible, easily converted from one commodity into another. CNN.com
  • Sanctioned countries with exports that are fungible commodities and that are limited in supply (such as oil) feel very little effect from U.S. sanctions on their exports.
  • Jasper, these are some outrageously uniformed comments you are making … States are set to receive at least $120 billion (15% of the entire stimulus) in slush fund money (supposedly allocated for and FMAP increase and education funds) that can be spent however they want b/c money is fungible. Matthew Yglesias » Guest Post: Furloughed at the University of Maryland
  • One that acknowledges that my candidate's speech is mine, that hard money is fungible with soft money, and thus that both should be regulated the same way.
  • Secondly, you assume there will be a free market and oil will remain fungible. Priorities « PubliCola
  • And he set the word fungible on a triple word score, pulling into the lead. VANISHING ACTS
  • Money is fungible, and stopping them from transferring these funds would require a whole new micro-surveillance of wealth transfers in the world.
  • Certainly, this appears to be the case for a country like Iran, where the major export is a largely fungible commodity that can be easily diverted to other markets.
  • Not only is 20 percent of mortgage debt sold to foreign banks and other foreign buyers outright, but modern finance has made all liquid instruments de facto fungible.
  • Law's statement is simply incredible to anyone who realizes that money is fungible and that insurance is not free.
  • Sorry, but a commodity is a fungible good — goods which come to market in such a way that they are not readily distinguishable one from the other. The Volokh Conspiracy » An Act for the Relief of Sick and Disabled Seamen
  • Conclusion Psychotherapy have no fungible action for psychology and physical rehabilitation and sufferer' society function of hypochondriacal neurosis for regain.
  • Green Tags function on the principle that electrical power is fungible - that is, one unit of it is identical in use to another, regardless of its source.
  • Duffy Pratt: Sorry, but a commodity is a fungible good — goods which come to market in such a way that they are not readily distinguishable one from theother. The Volokh Conspiracy » An Act for the Relief of Sick and Disabled Seamen
  • But for the growing number of techies who toil at making products and services more user - friendly, job titles are more fungible - and more confusing.
  • In order to obviate that, because money is fungible and budget-cutting is suddenly in vogue, you would think that government agencies would be aggressively trimming noncritical, nonlife-threatening expenditures and diverting scarce resources to genuinely pressing needs. Waste And Bad Judgment Sprout At The USDA
  • The solution was to provide legislatively for rights equivalent to co-ownership by customers of fungible securities held by the settlement systems.
  • In defending such laws, the Administration argues that money is fungible, so support of a group's lawful activities will free up resources that can be spent on terrorism.
  • Geithner, claimed that it would be impossible to find out where the money went, on the argument that money is "fungible" -- that is to say all money is the same. Look Out Below! They Call This Season 'Fall' for a Reason
  • Most evidence suggests that aid money is fungible - that is, that it goes into the pot of public funds and is spent on whatever the recipient wants to spend it on.
  • Though biblical historians try hard to paint a detailed picture of the first century for us, it would have to be impossibly fine-grained to give us the generational nuances of a phrase as fungible as “making love,” let alone the alterations that semantic drift might bring to a phrase like “in the beginning was the Word.” Beginner’s Grace
  • It was such a fungible ship; it could have been repainted in a million ways and we'd never know where it came from. BALANCE OF POWER
  • In the media, television stations thousands of miles apart would hire fungible newscasters who looked and acted the same.
  • The fungible funds bridge the budget deficit - the proceeds of divestment subsidise the profligacy of the Union government.
  • For Enron, where everything was fungible, conservation made financial sense: The company could help its customers save energy, then resell those savings to someone else.
  • Some would argue that this is both pedantic and unrealistic, since money is fungible and one £10 note is for all purposes the same as another.
  • Pure competition, as Schumpeter sees it, exists only in open markets for fungible commodity products.

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