nonstandard

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Recent Examples of nonstandard All forms of nonstandard helmets are unsafe helmets. Tanya Mohn, Forbes, 24 Feb. 2025 Additionally, the numeric keypad has a nonstandard three-column layout with narrow keys. PCMAG, 10 Feb. 2025 The site also uses some nonstandard conventions, one of which cost me at least a half hour in data entry time. PCMAG, 4 Feb. 2025 Despite these guidelines, healthcare providers still take measurements in nonstandard positions — with the arm resting on a patient’s lap or hanging at their side, according to study authors. Don Rauf, EverydayHealth.com, 10 Oct. 2024 See All Example Sentences for nonstandard
Recent Examples of Synonyms for nonstandard
Adjective
  • But these seductions or deceptions are canceled when the work confronts us with the photographic records of the performative procedure itself—and not only by making the photograph an integral component, the dialectical complement to the material sculptural production.
    Benjamin H. D. Buchloh, Artforum, 1 June 2025
  • Her private practice specializes in using dialectical behavior therapy and other cognitive behavioral approaches to treat different mood, anxiety, and personality disorders.
    Bruce Y. Lee, Forbes.com, 26 May 2025
Adjective
  • This would enable Israel, though belatedly, to join Trump's vision of a New Middle East, including normalization with Saudi Arabia, regional deployment to tackle the Iranian challenge, and participation in the trade corridor project from India through the Gulf to Europe.
    Ehud Barak, Time, 2 June 2025
  • Most Popular Top 2 seeds done on wild baseball Sunday As mentioned above, the NCAA baseball tournament has emulated its basketball counterpart in every way this weekend, as both the Nos. 1 and 2 overall seeds — Vanderbilt and Texas — saw seasons end in their own regional yesterday.
    Chris Branch, New York Times, 2 June 2025
Adjective
  • Because back nine is close to backside, and backside is just far too colloquial.
    Paulina Dedaj, FOXNews.com, 8 Apr. 2025
  • Russ Scholl, a ski instructor at Breckenridge Ski Resort, has published a 133-square grid of funky colloquial phrases for different types of snow.
    Brittney Melton, NPR, 24 Mar. 2025
Adjective
  • For Forbes, learning the defense itself wasn’t as intensive as understanding the Rams’ techniques and vernacular.
    Adam Grosbard, Oc Register, 28 May 2025
  • Originally appearing in Latin or Greek, several stories of transgender saints made their way into vernacular languages.
    Sarah Barringer, The Conversation, 27 May 2025
Adjective
  • The improvements of the Knicks, combined with a substandard night from the Pacers, led to a blowout.
    Tony East, Forbes.com, 31 May 2025
  • Meanwhile, an aging, but still useful stadium will sit, basically vacant, while the University of Maryland, just a few exits up the Capital Beltway, is trying to compete in the Big Ten in a substandard ramshackle football stadium completed in 1950.
    Reader Commentary, Baltimore Sun, 30 Apr. 2025
Adjective
  • Since the start of the war in Ukraine, more than 272,000 children in Ukraine have benefitted from learning interventions with supplies provided by UNICEF, and over 400,000 children have engaged in formal or nonformal education.
    Sarah Ferguson, Forbes, 18 Aug. 2022
  • The 10-to-15-second video clips are a nonformal way to engage your customers and tell them about your products.
    Michael Plummer, Forbes, 3 June 2022
Adjective
  • With its gleaming cabinetry, large central island and ample space for a large table and chairs for informal meals, this area has an undeniable contemporary feel and visual appeal.
    James Alexander, Hartford Courant, 1 June 2025
  • This exemption enabled informal workers and women who had had career gaps due to childrearing, for instance, to retire with some security.
    Christine Ro, Forbes.com, 30 May 2025

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

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