noncanonical
adjective
non·ca·non·i·cal
ˌnän-kə-ˈnä-ni-kəl 
Examples of noncanonical in a Sentence
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The releases will also include the noncanonical Undead Nightmare single-player campaign that pitted John Marston against hordes of zombies.
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Andrew Webster, The Verge, 7 Aug. 2023
Another popular noncanonical ship is Sam and Dean from Supernatural, who are literally brothers.
—Stacey Grant, Seventeen, 18 May 2023
Tessa is a rising star in her small field: the noncanonical work of minor Roman poets.
—Washington Post, 31 Dec. 2021
McCrary was for many years a nun with the Sisters for Christian Community, a noncanonical Catholic order of religious women formed after the Second Vatican Council.
—Fred Bahnson, Harpers Magazine, 5 Jan. 2021
Besides, optimization isn’t necessarily the goal, given that the experiments being done to incorporate noncanonical amino acids are exploratory and geared toward applications, not theoretical research.
—Quanta Magazine, 2 Jan. 2018
George Church, the prominent geneticist at Harvard University known for his entrepreneurial endeavors in biotech, is spearheading an effort to reclaim redundant codons for natural amino acids to specify noncanonical ones instead.
—Quanta Magazine, 2 Jan. 2018
Andrew Webster, The Verge, 7 Aug. 2023
Another popular noncanonical ship is Sam and Dean from Supernatural, who are literally brothers.
—Stacey Grant, Seventeen, 18 May 2023
Tessa is a rising star in her small field: the noncanonical work of minor Roman poets.
—Washington Post, 31 Dec. 2021
McCrary was for many years a nun with the Sisters for Christian Community, a noncanonical Catholic order of religious women formed after the Second Vatican Council.
—Fred Bahnson, Harpers Magazine, 5 Jan. 2021
Besides, optimization isn’t necessarily the goal, given that the experiments being done to incorporate noncanonical amino acids are exploratory and geared toward applications, not theoretical research.
—Quanta Magazine, 2 Jan. 2018
George Church, the prominent geneticist at Harvard University known for his entrepreneurial endeavors in biotech, is spearheading an effort to reclaim redundant codons for natural amino acids to specify noncanonical ones instead.
—Quanta Magazine, 2 Jan. 2018
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Word History
First Known Use
1873, in the meaning defined above
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“Noncanonical.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/noncanonical. Accessed 19 Apr. 2024.
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