nonrepresentative

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Recent Examples of nonrepresentative In open session, the board heard reports on summer school and district demographics, and approved raises and a benefits increase for Classified Confidential, Supervisory, and Management nonrepresentative groups retroactive to July 1, 2022. Laura Groch, San Diego Union-Tribune, 7 May 2023 In those cases, small, nonrepresentative subsets of users self-select to curate material, and each one can see what the others are doing. Gilad Edelman, Wired, 1 Sep. 2021 The episode is perfect insight into mainstream American views of othered places — Africa or Asia, New Orleans or Compton — a story limned by limited outsiders and thus nonrepresentative, objectified and objectionable. Tunde Wey, San Francisco Chronicle, 18 Mar. 2018
Recent Examples of Synonyms for nonrepresentative
Adjective
  • What does give us reason to stop the virtual presses and take notice is when the opportunity is afforded to break the news that an extremely anomalous variant in time-capsule condition will soon go to the highest bidder.
    Viju Mathew, Robb Report, 26 May 2025
  • There are several advanced monitoring components: • Outlier Detection: Flags anomalous predictions that may be unreliable for production use, particularly important given the noisy nature of real-world data.
    Neel Sendas, Forbes.com, 4 Apr. 2025
Adjective
  • Such odds and ends of deviant behavior don’t add up to a coherent personality, much less an ideology that could help tip the film into genuine provocation.
    J. Kim Murphy, Variety, 10 Sep. 2024
  • Maynard taught at various schools, including as an adjunct faculty member in Santa Clara University’s sociology department and as a lecturer at Sonoma State University specializing in criminal justice, cults and deviant behavior.
    Ishani Desai, Sacramento Bee, 30 May 2024
Adjective
  • Storm surge is defined by the National Hurricane Center as an abnormal rise of water generated by a storm.
    Mallory Nicholls, The Orlando Sentinel, 27 May 2025
  • One or more other symptoms like abnormal eye movements (nystagmus), vomiting, paleness, or fearfulness are also present.
    Colleen Doherty, Verywell Health, 26 May 2025
Adjective
  • Senior elite players actually had more atypical pathways than those who did not reach elite levels.
    Liam Tharme, New York Times, 7 June 2025
  • In each episode, one of Canada’s most popular celebrities and public figures will face a group of 30 atypical interviewers, all on the autism spectrum.
    Jesse Whittock, Deadline, 4 June 2025
Adjective
  • Here are three recent examples: AI fails to explain an aberrant automobile production number Forbes Daily: Join over 1 million Forbes Daily subscribers and get our best stories, exclusive reporting and essential analysis of the day’s news in your inbox every weekday.
    John S. Tobey, Forbes.com, 11 May 2025
  • Back in 2022, researchers at the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg in Germany showed that administering CAR T-cell therapy to five people with severe lupus could completely remove the aberrant B cells, sending all of the patients into remission.
    Juergen Eckhardt, Forbes.com, 23 Apr. 2025
Adjective
  • What to Consider The price is a bit high, but not untypical for a high-quality pair of boots.
    Nathan Borchelt, Travel + Leisure, 26 June 2023
  • The psychiatric staff at Children’s is used to treating the Washington region’s most severely affected kids, and these cases were not untypical of those the doctors and nurses on the inpatient unit had been seeing before the pandemic.
    Judith Warner, Washington Post, 21 Mar. 2022
Adjective
  • But there’s a very nontypical story behind this typical 12-point.
    Alice Jones Webb, Outdoor Life, 11 Dec. 2024
  • Mule deer fanatics love the bucks’ tendencies to grow nontypical racks full of drop tines, kickers, palmated tines, and other funky features.
    Katie Hill, Outdoor Life, 14 Feb. 2023
Adjective
  • But the boys also casually tell stories about the deprivations of their previous life, a reminder of how unusual their childhoods have been by American standards.
    Sacha Pfeiffer, NPR, 27 May 2025
  • While the timing off the surgery was a bit unusual, Tremble’s importance to the lineup — and the quick turnaround for rehabilitation — made the decision palatable to the organization.
    Mike Kaye, Charlotte Observer, 27 May 2025

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“Nonrepresentative.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/nonrepresentative. Accessed 10 Jun. 2025.

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