nontypical

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Recent Examples of nontypical 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 Spillers’ big nontypical whitetail sports 18 points and scored 198 2/8 inches. Scott Bestul, Field & Stream, 9 Jan. 2023 Fifty percent of each purchase will be donated directly to the school, a program that educates typical and nontypical learners in an inclusive environment. Kimber Westphall, Dallas News, 23 July 2021 Included among Kasas’s top recent bucks is Gerald E. Rightmyer’s 272-2/8-inch nontypical taken in 2006 and a 295-inch giant picked up in 2012. Scott Bestul, Field & Stream, 19 Mar. 2021 Sporting 18 scorable points, the 61/2-year-old free-ranging whitetail was recently taped for Texas Big Game Awards at 172 gross and 1634/8 net as a nontypical using the Boone and Crockett scoring system. Matt Williams, Dallas News, 29 Jan. 2021 Ryan Beran watched this 200-plus-inch nontypical buck grow up on his property in Northeast Ohio and was finally able to tag the monster deer this fall. Scott Bestul, Field & Stream, 18 Mar. 2021 In 2017, Kurt started getting trail-cam pics of something unusual on the property—a buck with some nontypical antler growth. Scott Bestul, Field & Stream, 22 Dec. 2020
Recent Examples of Synonyms for nontypical
Adjective
  • Rupe focuses on programming new works or plays with atypical subject matter.
    Matthew J. Palm, The Orlando Sentinel, 3 Apr. 2025
  • And then there is a dimension around atypical projects, connected to encounters rather than a business plan.
    Lily Templeton, Footwear News, 1 Apr. 2025
Adjective
  • This uncharacteristic decision leads to a day of risk and romance, liberation and intimacy: 24 hours that will transform Allyson’s life.
    Anthony D'Alessandro, Deadline, 10 Apr. 2025
  • The process not only ushered in uncharacteristic darkness, but unveiled the outermost layer of the sun's atmosphere.
    Eric Lagatta, USA Today, 8 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

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“Nontypical.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/nontypical. Accessed 22 Apr. 2025.

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