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Recent Examples of nonstandard
WindBorne also plans to use live flight data to allow its weather balloons to autonomously avoid planes, even if planes are flying at a nonstandard altitude, according to the company’s statement.
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Lauren Penington, Denver Post, 21 Oct. 2025
Take slang, the informal nonstandard language that fills our world.
—Literary Hub, 20 Oct. 2025
The keyboard consists of two freestanding halves with a nonstandard key layout.
—PC Magazine, 13 Oct. 2025
The lossy capture cards also often had trouble correctly interpreting the multiple streams of overlapping video data that could be arranged in nonstandard ways on a LaserActive disc.
—Kyle Orland, ArsTechnica, 2 Sep. 2025
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Lauren Penington, Denver Post, 21 Oct. 2025
Take slang, the informal nonstandard language that fills our world.
—Literary Hub, 20 Oct. 2025
The keyboard consists of two freestanding halves with a nonstandard key layout.
—PC Magazine, 13 Oct. 2025
The lossy capture cards also often had trouble correctly interpreting the multiple streams of overlapping video data that could be arranged in nonstandard ways on a LaserActive disc.
—Kyle Orland, ArsTechnica, 2 Sep. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for nonstandard
Adjective
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Though the creator was surprised to hear Dunster’s dialectical take on the role.—
David Canfield,
HollywoodReporter,
9 Feb. 2026
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This dialectical behavioral therapy (DBT) tactic balances the nervous system, taking us from a sympathetic response back to a parasympathetic state.—
Stefanie Groner,
Glamour,
4 Feb. 2026
Adjective
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Iowa became the lowest-seeded team from the Big Ten to reach a regional final since seeding began in 1979.—
Kristie Rieken,
Chicago Tribune,
27 Mar. 2026
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A day before the conference kicks off, regional funders Film- und Medienstiftung NRW and the Film- und Medienverband NRW and producer group Produktionsallianz will run a conference event called Story Vision Europe that Seriencamp badge holders can attend.—
Stewart Clarke,
Deadline,
26 Mar. 2026
Adjective
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The realism, though, comes in the particularity of the Spanish dialogue, the cultural exchanges, and colloquial understandings that run through this community — and from Mexico to the United States.—
Ryan Lattanzio,
IndieWire,
19 Mar. 2026
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The country that lays colloquial claim to the pastime has historically underperformed, quite clearly because other nations were simply trying harder in the form of better players agreeing to participate.—
Hannah Keyser,
CNN Money,
12 Mar. 2026
Adjective
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The final tour on May 30 will be Avon and Simsbury including architectural themes of vernacular farmhouses, Georgian and Federal homes and the classic saltbox home.—
Staff Report,
Hartford Courant,
25 Mar. 2026
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Translated into many vernacular languages, the poetry and philosophy of Firdausi, Attar, Rumi, Hafez, Sa‘di, Nizami, Ibn Sina, and Nizam al-Mulk assumed a canonical authority across Asia.—
Pankaj Mishra,
The New York Review of Books,
13 Mar. 2026
Adjective
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This includes constant exposure to toxic pesticides, poverty-level wages and substandard housing conditions.—
U T Readers,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
22 Mar. 2026
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Historical accounts acknowledge Chavez’s substantial organizational accomplishments, including galvanizing farmworkers across California in the mid-1960s and orchestrating the 1968 grape boycott that brought national attention to agricultural workers’ brutal conditions and substandard wages.—
Carlos De Loera,
Los Angeles Times,
20 Mar. 2026
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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But even Cunard has nonformal settings where dressed-down can go, including the buffet, casino and pub.—
Hannah Sampson,
Houston Chronicle,
20 Dec. 2019
Adjective
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Food and drink Head to Cugino for breakfast or an informal lunch.—
Condé Nast,
Condé Nast Traveler,
31 Mar. 2026
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Through performances, activations, and informal exchanges, visitors are invited to share personal stories that become part of an evolving audio component.—
Olga Garcia-Mayoral,
Miami Herald,
31 Mar. 2026
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“Nonstandard.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/nonstandard. Accessed 2 Apr. 2026.
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