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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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What tipped biologists off to its morphological differences was the Barbary lion's deep golden coat and an anomalous, dark, thick mane.—
Scott Travers,
Forbes.com,
7 Sep. 2025
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This group, which included Professor Berlinguette, was tasked with rigorously re-evaluating the controversial 1989 experiment that claimed to produce anomalous heat from the fusion of deuterium ions in palladium.—
Aman Tripathi,
Interesting Engineering,
20 Aug. 2025
Adjective
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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
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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
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Researchers from Copenhagen University Hospital in Denmark followed 1,200 patients at high risk for ventricular arrhythmias (abnormal heart rhythms) who already had tiny implantable cardioverter-defibrillators (ICDs) in their chests.—
Angelica Stabile,
FOXNews.com,
9 Sep. 2025
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Unlike traditional software tools that cannot detect unusual activity if legitimate login credentials are used, hardware-level security can detect unusual access patterns—like mass file transfers or abnormal read/write activity—at the physical layer.—
Camellia Chan,
Forbes.com,
8 Sep. 2025
Adjective
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As for filming, Peckham welcomed the atypical acting realities of the motion capture performance.—
Mia Galuppo,
HollywoodReporter,
9 Sep. 2025
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That blend of sadness and comedy, and even atypical family dynamics, run throughout a lot of your work.—
Alison Foreman,
IndieWire,
26 Aug. 2025
Adjective
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Scientists are sequencing the genomes in brain regions that postmortem studies show are affected by CTE to understand which cells and genes are aberrant.—
Alice Park,
Time,
31 July 2025
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The answer is that France at this time was attempting to heal its wartime wounds, papering over the cracks in the social fabric that had opened up during the German Occupation and positioning itself as a nation of resisters, in which collaborators had been few and aberrant.—
Richard Brody,
New Yorker,
30 July 2025
Adjective
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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
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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
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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Spillers’ big nontypical whitetail sports 18 points and scored 198 2/8 inches.—
Scott Bestul,
Field & Stream,
9 Jan. 2023
Adjective
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Because our mulch is rubber, this seemed unusual, and out of caution, the guardian was called immediately.—
Latoya Gayle,
PEOPLE,
8 Sep. 2025
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Routh, who is representing himself, has filed unusual motions requesting strippers and a golf round with the president.—
Kinsey Crowley,
USA Today,
7 Sep. 2025
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“Nonrepresentative.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/nonrepresentative. Accessed 15 Sep. 2025.
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