nonrepresentative

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Recent Examples of nonrepresentative In open session, the board heard reports on summer school and district demographics, and approved raises and a benefits increase for Classified Confidential, Supervisory, and Management nonrepresentative groups retroactive to July 1, 2022. Laura Groch, San Diego Union-Tribune, 7 May 2023 In those cases, small, nonrepresentative subsets of users self-select to curate material, and each one can see what the others are doing. Gilad Edelman, Wired, 1 Sep. 2021 The episode is perfect insight into mainstream American views of othered places — Africa or Asia, New Orleans or Compton — a story limned by limited outsiders and thus nonrepresentative, objectified and objectionable. Tunde Wey, San Francisco Chronicle, 18 Mar. 2018
Recent Examples of Synonyms for nonrepresentative
Adjective
  • These technologies can also analyze user behavior for anomalous activities by establishing a baseline of normal user and system behavior, such as those changes made in log data, network traffic, and access patterns.
    Jason Phillips, jsonline.com, 28 Oct. 2025
  • Found in cultures around the world, geomyths attempt to account for anomalous natural phenomena and massive geological events.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 22 Oct. 2025
Adjective
  • From Psycho to The Texas Chain Saw Massacre to The Silence of the Lambs, Gein’s macabre legacy gave birth to fictional monsters born in his image and ignited a cultural obsession with the criminally deviant.
    Jackie Strause, HollywoodReporter, 4 Sep. 2025
  • From Psycho to The Texas Chain Saw Massacre to The Silence of the Lambs, Gein’s macabre legacy gave birth to fictional monsters born in his image and ignited a cultural obsession with the criminally deviant.
    Andrew McGowan, Variety, 27 Aug. 2025
Adjective
  • Supplements That Affect Blood Pressure and Heart Rate Some supplements can raise blood pressure or alter heart rhythms, which can lead to rapid changes in heart rate, high blood pressure (hypertension), or abnormal heart rhythms (arrhythmia).
    Ayesha Gulzar, Verywell Health, 28 Oct. 2025
  • Hypercalcemia can lead to serious issues like kidney failure and abnormal heart rhythms.
    Sherri Gordon, Health, 28 Oct. 2025
Adjective
  • What is atypical, economists say, is the historically high ratio of stock prices to corporate earnings.
    Daniel de Visé, USA Today, 27 Oct. 2025
  • Their daring brand of soccer chosen by Varas, general manager Tyler Heaps and president Tom Penn is atypical in MLS.
    Tom Krasovic, San Diego Union-Tribune, 25 Oct. 2025
Adjective
  • So her aberrant behavior was anxiety-driven?
    Anne Thompson, IndieWire, 17 Oct. 2025
  • What once was aberrant—indeed, unimaginable—is now standard Trump fare, demeaning not only to the Presidency but to the rule of law.
    Ruth Marcus, New Yorker, 9 Oct. 2025
Adjective
  • If the strong cashflow position of the firms at the centre of this bubble is unusual in the context of the Kindleberger framework, two other factors also stand out as untypical.
    Mike O'Sullivan, Forbes.com, 22 Aug. 2025
  • What to Consider The price is a bit high, but not untypical for a high-quality pair of boots.
    Nathan Borchelt, Travel + Leisure, 26 June 2023
Adjective
  • The Brooks bull was also in contention to unseat the Spider Bull, the reigning nontypical world-record in the Boone and Crockett record books, which accepts big game killed by any legal method.
    Natalie Krebs, Outdoor Life, 15 Oct. 2025
  • Spillers’ big nontypical whitetail sports 18 points and scored 198 2/8 inches.
    Scott Bestul, Field & Stream, 9 Jan. 2023
Adjective
  • The novel’s composition is remarkable for the unusual way its eight sections tangentially revolve around the narrator, a West African man named Tunde.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 3 Nov. 2025
  • Sabrina Carpenter performed double duty as host and musical guest on the previous episode, which, in an unusual move, kicked off with a non-political cold open.
    Brendan Morrow, USA Today, 2 Nov. 2025

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“Nonrepresentative.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/nonrepresentative. Accessed 4 Nov. 2025.

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