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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.
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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
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
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Focus on how to close the observability gaps so teams can quickly detect anomalous activity and potential signs of compromise.—
Martin Roesch,
Forbes.com,
12 May 2025
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Chelsea’s anomalous presence in the Conference League has changed that but, as many have noted, this particular club has no shortage of senior professional footballers on its books.—
Liam Twomey,
New York Times,
9 May 2025
Adjective
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Such odds and ends of deviant behavior don’t add up to a coherent personality, much less an ideology that could help tip the film into genuine provocation.—
J. Kim Murphy,
Variety,
10 Sep. 2024
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Maynard taught at various schools, including as an adjunct faculty member in Santa Clara University’s sociology department and as a lecturer at Sonoma State University specializing in criminal justice, cults and deviant behavior.—
Ishani Desai,
Sacramento Bee,
30 May 2024
Adjective
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According to the Cleveland Clinic, SADS is a heart condition where an abnormal heart rhythm affects the heart’s electrical system, causing sudden death.—
Gabrielle Rockson,
People.com,
16 May 2025
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Alopecia areata is an autoimmune condition that causes abnormal inflammation around hair follicles, leading to excessive hair loss.—
Ruth Jessen Hickman,
Health,
16 May 2025
Adjective
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Vascular Malformations Vascular malformations are atypical or abnormal connections in veins and arteries.—
Angelica Bottaro,
Verywell Health,
14 May 2025
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This type of discrepancy is atypical for the Oilers.—
Daniel Nugent-Bowman,
New York Times,
9 May 2025
Adjective
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Back in 2022, researchers at the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg in Germany showed that administering CAR T-cell therapy to five people with severe lupus could completely remove the aberrant B cells, sending all of the patients into remission.—
Juergen Eckhardt,
Forbes.com,
23 Apr. 2025
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Things that people think are morally abnormal – aberrant behavior, transgressions, violations of their most sacred values – are viewed as highly threatening and necessary to shut down, with force if necessary.—
Jen Cole Wright,
The Conversation,
14 Apr. 2025
Adjective
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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
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The psychiatric staff at Children’s is used to treating the Washington region’s most severely affected kids, and these cases were not untypical of those the doctors and nurses on the inpatient unit had been seeing before the pandemic.—
Judith Warner,
Washington Post,
21 Mar. 2022
Adjective
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But there’s a very nontypical story behind this typical 12-point.—
Alice Jones Webb,
Outdoor Life,
11 Dec. 2024
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Mule deer fanatics love the bucks’ tendencies to grow nontypical racks full of drop tines, kickers, palmated tines, and other funky features.—
Katie Hill,
Outdoor Life,
14 Feb. 2023
Adjective
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In that respect, Alonso is not necessarily unusual.—
Ken Rosenthal,
New York Times,
15 May 2025
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If anything seems unusual, trust your instincts and stop the communication immediately.—
Kurt Knutsson,
FOXNews.com,
14 May 2025
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“Nonrepresentative.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/nonrepresentative. Accessed 22 May. 2025.
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