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Recent Examples of Synonyms for nongrammatical
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The notes were vintage O’Keeffe—brief, vivid, enlightening, and, yes, often ungrammatical, but brilliantly so.
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But if language exemplifies the human capacity for internalizing grammatical conventions, then my moment of rule-breaking does not in fact expose some ungrammatical first nature.
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The report says there's been progress, but minorities, along with people who are poor and uneducated, still face higher death rates.
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The hillbilly is portrayed as ignorant, uneducated, and unsophisticated; they are often depicted as being unkempt in appearance, perhaps noticeably dirty or walking around barefoot.
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As a result, many working-class Korean and Latino immigrant households lived side by side and often confronted similar challenges, including substandard housing conditions, landlord abuses and underfunded public schools.
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So the team studied medical practice laws in other states, actions by their medical boards involving alternative medicine and board orders for substandard care.
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Food and drink, of course, are among the attractions of a New Orleans journey, and the superb offerings at the hotel—under the direction of Executive Chef Dario Montelvere, a Robb Report culinary master—reflect the city’s heritage, from regional cuisine and local seafood to steakhouse dishes.
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The regional sales tax proposal would generate about $1 billion a year for multiple Bay Area transit agencies.
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Govern From Day One In a regulated context, an assistant that produces a confident but incorrect answer carries genuine regulatory and reputational exposure.
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Many argue that signatures are invalid because signers listed incorrect addresses or live outside of the district the candidate wants to represent.
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The dialectic moves between crashing despair and hovering hope.
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Firpi concluded that Saenz should receive dialectical behavioral therapy, or DBT, an intensive therapy originally developed for self-harming women with borderline personality disorder that is now also used to treat PTSD, eating disorders and substance use.
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De-Stalinization was quick and brutal, with history having the last say — a lesson guaranteed to go unlearned.
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Peeta explained unlearned stimuli cause AVs to simply stop.
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This can even affect nonstandard English speakers or people who speak a variety of English that differs from the mainstream varieties privileged in courts and schools.
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Diamonds with nonstandard colors are more difficult to value, as the principle of supply and demand applies here.
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“Nongrammatical.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/nongrammatical. Accessed 28 Jun. 2026.
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