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The report added that Holly made posts on social media displaying his gear, which were decorated with extremist symbols and inspired by equipment used by previous mass shooters.—
Thao Nguyen,
USA Today,
16 Sep. 2025 -
Each of these attacks was committed with extremist, white-supremacist motivations.—
Rebecca Schneid,
Time,
16 Sep. 2025
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Many users have nontraditional income, live in multigenerational households or face language barriers.—
Rathi Murthy,
Forbes.com,
15 Sep. 2025
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Notably, the campaign made a more direct effort to court young voters on nontraditional media platforms.—
Elena Moore,
NPR,
10 Sep. 2025
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Harlem’s Fashion Row is doing revolutionary work within an industry that often has little to no regard for Black designers beyond lip service.—
Robyn Mowatt,
Essence,
12 Sep. 2025
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In revolutionary Russia, a group of forward-thinking philosophers offered an alternative to both futurism and communism.—
Tim Brinkhof,
Big Think,
12 Sep. 2025
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Green Berets are training alongside Mexico’s elite marine infantry units in conventional and nonconventional combat techniques.—
Risa Brooks,
Foreign Affairs,
8 Apr. 2025
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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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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
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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
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But, unlike real experts, Heritage and Feulner’s promise was that every problem could be solved with a conservative solution, or that every nonconservative solution would be a disaster.—
E.J. Fagan,
Chicago Tribune,
8 Aug. 2025
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McDaniel and her advisers have pushed for some nonconservative outlets to host the party’s debates, arguing that many independent and Republican voters can be reached through these channels and that Republicans should not limit themselves to right-leaning outlets.—
Josh Dawsey,
Washington Post,
2 May 2023
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There’s something radical about physical community.—
Isabela Raygoza,
Billboard,
12 Sep. 2025
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In this, Castro not only gestures at the social crisis that’s driving so many men toward radical ideas but also helps explain its causes and repercussions.—
Jeremy Gordon,
The Atlantic,
12 Sep. 2025
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“Antitraditional.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/antitraditional. Accessed 18 Sep. 2025.
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