anticonventional

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of Synonyms for anticonventional
Adjective
  • That also applies to the current de facto annexation being carried out by radical settlers and extremist ministers in Netanyahu’s cabinet.
    Trudy Rubin, Mercury News, 18 Oct. 2025
  • Stone Island isn’t the only label to have been worn by people associated with extremist movements in recent years.
    Steve Salter, CNN Money, 15 Oct. 2025
Adjective
  • From these revolutionary realizations, the notion of the expanding Universe was born.
    Big Think, Big Think, 24 Oct. 2025
  • Counting Barack and Michelle Obama among its exec producers, Proudfoot’s film follows Chris Hesse, a nonagenarian photographer who snapped African revolutionary leader Kwame Nkrumah.
    Jesse Whittock, Deadline, 24 Oct. 2025
Adjective
  • But the state is also being forced to consider nontraditional water sources while staring down the impending water shortage.
    Matthew Adams, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 21 Oct. 2025
  • That means lots of bratwurst, plenty of beer and traditional and nontraditional tunes from the Zicke Zacke Band.
    Sal Pizarro, Mercury News, 16 Oct. 2025
Adjective
  • The 1960s marked a significant pivot in cultural mores, from the adherence to convention both socially and stylistically at the dawn of the decade to the age of antiestablishment fervor and personal empowerment as the period progressed.
    Viju Mathew, Robb Report, 8 Sep. 2025
  • They have been weakened by rising antiestablishment beliefs on the left and the right, notably among younger voters, and by the sentiment that parties are not as essential to ideas or governing anymore.
    Adam Nagourney, BostonGlobe.com, 4 May 2020
Adjective
  • Green Berets are training alongside Mexico’s elite marine infantry units in conventional and nonconventional combat techniques.
    Risa Brooks, Foreign Affairs, 8 Apr. 2025
  • After building two lucrative businesses, the serial entrepreneur and attorney set her sights on ensuring her family was also a success in a nonconventional way.
    Jasmine Browley, Essence, 6 Oct. 2024
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“Anticonventional.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/anticonventional. Accessed 29 Oct. 2025.

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