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Recent Examples of nonstandard
The site also uses some nonstandard conventions, one of which cost me at least a half hour in data entry time.
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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
To evaluate the effects of these nonstandard positions, researchers recruited 133 adults for this study.
—Don Rauf, EverydayHealth.com, 10 Oct. 2024
Generated code may lack context, leading to nonstandard or vulnerable code.
—Expert Panel®, Forbes, 21 Mar. 2025
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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
To evaluate the effects of these nonstandard positions, researchers recruited 133 adults for this study.
—Don Rauf, EverydayHealth.com, 10 Oct. 2024
Generated code may lack context, leading to nonstandard or vulnerable code.
—Expert Panel®, Forbes, 21 Mar. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for nonstandard
Adjective
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Different types of counseling or psychotherapy, including cognitive behavioral therapy, dialectical behavioral therapy and motivational therapy, may work for different people.—
Hannah Yasharoff,
USA Today,
12 Apr. 2025
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As a student of astrology and as a Gemini sun—curious, quick-witted, charming with a penchant for dialectical analysis—who better to engage in this purely scientific endeavor?—
Maya Layne,
Vogue,
14 Feb. 2025
Adjective
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His work has received dozens of national and regional awards.—
Eric Adler,
Kansas City Star,
15 Apr. 2025
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The investment was about $3.55 billion, according to Newsweek research—a mixture of direct and indirect grants and loans from the Chinese state and its banks, regional development banks and the states themselves.—
Thomas G. Moukawsher,
MSNBC Newsweek,
14 Apr. 2025
Adjective
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Because back nine is close to backside, and backside is just far too colloquial.—
Paulina Dedaj,
FOXNews.com,
8 Apr. 2025
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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
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In addition to the musical reconstruction, McBurney has been making a contemporary English version of the libretto, with the translator Hannah Whitley, that preserves the original’s vernacular.—
Jeffrey Arlo Brown,
New York Times,
12 Apr. 2025
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This therapist speaks in a very specific kind of vernacular.—
EW.com,
EW.com,
27 Mar. 2025
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The provision for credit losses increased to $1.4 million from $246,000, reflecting growth in the loan portfolio and increased substandard loans.—
Quartz Intelligence Newsroom,
Quartz,
14 Mar. 2025
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Both Noem and President Trump’s Border czar, Tom Homan, have pinned the blame for immigration enforcement raids being revealed ahead of time and the substandard U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) numbers of arrests on internal leakers.—
Filip Timotija,
The Hill,
8 Mar. 2025
Adjective
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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
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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
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When the executive order goes into effect, de minimis packages from China will be subject to an informal entry process, and each package that travels to the U.S. via international post will now be subject to a tariff rate of 120 percent or $100, a rate that will increase to $200 after June 1.—
Tianwei Zhang,
Footwear News,
14 Apr. 2025
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What exactly are the rules for saving seats at an informal event where seats are not assigned? Related Articles Miss Manners: Heroes?—
Judith Martin,
Mercury News,
12 Apr. 2025
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“Nonstandard.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/nonstandard. Accessed 25 Apr. 2025.
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