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
  • There has been a bipartisan push in Congress to have the government declassify information related to unidentified anomalous phenomena.
    Hannah Parry, Newsweek, 24 Jan. 2025
  • Peterson and Boozer have a kinship in being tweeners who are good enough to do everything at their position(s) but don’t have that anomalous upside, which makes Dybantsa and Ament so enticing.
    Jared Weiss, The Athletic, 21 Jan. 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
  • Compared to male rats that didn’t consume any dye, male rats that ate the most had a significantly higher incidence of tumors — both malignant and benign — as well as abnormal cell growth in the thyroid.
    Karen Kaplan, Los Angeles Times, 15 Jan. 2025
  • Notably, two or more abnormal body fat measurements could still classify an individual as obese, regardless of BMI.
    Dr. Jennifer Miao, ABC News, 14 Jan. 2025
Adjective
  • The atypical themes Feiffer chose turned off some parents.
    Elaine Woo, Los Angeles Times, 21 Jan. 2025
  • Occasional incorrectly reported, atypical home sales and special circumstances may be listed or alter the average cost per square foot.
    Bay Area News Group, The Mercury News, 21 Jan. 2025
Adjective
  • Again, the answer lies in the collective mindset of reality TV, whose fans are highly tolerant of aberrant behavior and quick to forgive missteps.
    Meredith Blake, Los Angeles Times, 19 Jan. 2025
  • But the more people speak up against such aberrant behavior, the more likely those who are inclined toward violence will be persuaded that engaging their fellow citizens nonviolently is the more patriotic course of action.
    Reuben E. Brigety II, Foreign Affairs, 19 Oct. 2020
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
  • 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
Adjective
  • While some of the operations may not have been unusual, ICE averaged 311 daily arrests in the fiscal year that ended Sept. 30. — Associated Press Trump says inflation isn’t his No. 1 issue.
    Baltimore Sun staff, Baltimore Sun, 27 Jan. 2025
  • Hegseth showed up in person for the vote, which is unusual.
    Cybele Mayes-Osterman, USA TODAY, 25 Jan. 2025

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“Nonrepresentative.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/nonrepresentative. Accessed 30 Jan. 2025.

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