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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.
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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
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
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The wealth division's near-miss was reported to regulators and the company has since set up a tool to help vet large, anomalous payments and transfers, according to the report.—
Bhanvi Satija,
USA TODAY,
4 Mar. 2025
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Other Extended Features In addition to monitoring your credit card and bank accounts for anomalous transactions, Bitdefender alerts you to possible fraudulent transactions in your investment accounts.—
PCMAG,
PCMAG,
22 Jan. 2025
Adjective
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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
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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
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Obviously, that probably will change, but Newcastle are under no abnormal pressure to sell and there have so far been no signs of the player agitating to leave.—
David Ornstein,
New York Times,
27 Mar. 2025
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Yet my company has found there’s a wealth of efficiency in adopting AI tools like equipment monitoring to spot abnormal trends and predictive maintenance strategies to reduce downtime, waste and rework and maximize quality and efficiency.—
Gary Hoover,
Forbes.com,
27 Mar. 2025
Adjective
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Many came to this country to flee the civil war in their homeland, especially in the 1970s and 1980s, but my family’s arrival was somewhat atypical.—
George B. Sánchez-Tello,
Rolling Stone,
23 Mar. 2025
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Still, McCann has carved out a distinct campaign identity, if one that is not atypical of Republicans.—
Michael Smolens,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
14 Mar. 2025
Adjective
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One of the body’s own cells becomes damaged or corrupted and then multiplies to create copies of its aberrant self.—
Ingrid Wickelgren,
Scientific American,
14 Feb. 2025
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This not only paints a wider picture of his life and interests outside his Milan office, but frames his medical specialties as part of this natural world — his focus is the nature of human bodies, desires and impulses — rather than as something aberrant, as in the minds of detractors.—
Siddhant Adlakha,
Variety,
27 Jan. 2025
Adjective
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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
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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
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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
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Spillers’ big nontypical whitetail sports 18 points and scored 198 2/8 inches.—
Scott Bestul,
Field & Stream,
9 Jan. 2023
Adjective
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Canvas’s menu feature flavors such as Arabic coffee and karak chai and biscuits, but Al Marri also enjoys experimenting with unusual combinations, looking outside the dessert realm for ideas.—
Nicola Chilton,
AFAR Media,
28 Mar. 2025
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Separately, just days before the start date, Read made the unusual move of adding an alternate juror from her first trial to her legal team, according to media reports citing court records.—
Rachel Treisman,
NPR,
28 Mar. 2025
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“Nonrepresentative.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/nonrepresentative. Accessed 3 Apr. 2025.
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