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a time when people with unorthodox religious views were banished from the colony
raised by an aunt, whose unorthodox parenting practices made for a strange but fun childhood
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Étoile’s initially unwieldy ensemble also includes Tobias Bell (Maisel’s Gideon Glick), a fragile, neurotic American choreographer whose unorthodox style challenges tradition-loving French audiences.
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Judy Berman, Time, 23 Apr. 2025
Something their protagonists have in common with great fictional detectives is an unorthodox set of personal habits, combined with an idiosyncratically skewed moral compass.
—Talya Zax, The Atlantic, 23 Apr. 2025
In a new paper uploaded to the preprint database arXiv in March, Hao Jiao of McGill University in Quebec and colleagues propose an unorthodox solution: dark matter.
—Paul Sutter, Space.com, 21 Apr. 2025
Something tells me Gladstone will do something unorthodox.
—Pat Leonard, New York Daily News, 19 Apr. 2025
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Judy Berman, Time, 23 Apr. 2025
Something their protagonists have in common with great fictional detectives is an unorthodox set of personal habits, combined with an idiosyncratically skewed moral compass.
—Talya Zax, The Atlantic, 23 Apr. 2025
In a new paper uploaded to the preprint database arXiv in March, Hao Jiao of McGill University in Quebec and colleagues propose an unorthodox solution: dark matter.
—Paul Sutter, Space.com, 21 Apr. 2025
Something tells me Gladstone will do something unorthodox.
—Pat Leonard, New York Daily News, 19 Apr. 2025
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“Unorthodox.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/unorthodox. Accessed 5 May. 2025.
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unorthodox
adjective
un·or·tho·dox
ˌən-ˈȯr-thə-ˌdäks 
ˈən-
: not orthodox : not usual
an unorthodox teaching method
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