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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
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One possibility is that anomalous sulfur was left over from the moon’s formation, which is thought to have occurred after a Mars-sized object called Theia smashed into Earth during the early formation of the solar system.—
Chris Young,
Interesting Engineering,
7 Oct. 2025
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The man who has tried to outwork everyone to take care of his anomalous body faced a dangerous anomaly anyway.—
Jared Weiss,
New York Times,
2 Oct. 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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With sepsis, the immune system has an abnormal response to an infection — either too exuberant or too minimal.—
Dr. Marc Siegel , Melissa Rudy,
FOXNews.com,
5 Oct. 2025
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Cleveland is winding through an abnormal week in the middle of a uniquely brutal three-game stretch and searching for offensive answers of any kind.—
Zac Jackson,
New York Times,
1 Oct. 2025
Adjective
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Doing it during the past two seasons has yielded zero postseason wins, a disappointing return on Crane’s atypical investment.—
Chandler Rome,
New York Times,
9 Oct. 2025
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Concerning symptoms like lightheadedness, confusion, and atypical changes in blood pressure or heart rate are cause to stop right away and seek medical attention.—
Marissa Gold,
SELF,
9 Oct. 2025
Adjective
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The aberrant gene makes a form of the huntingtin protein that clumps into toxic aggregates, which prevent nerves from functioning normally.—
Alice Park,
Time,
26 Sep. 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
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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
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This is not unusual, because Mahomes teammates have done that in the past (notably Tyreek Hill, Travis Kelce and many others).—
Pete Grathoff,
Kansas City Star,
13 Oct. 2025
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Sometimes, Gatlin would also approve invoices from Georgia companies, which would have been unusual given that Jackson Health System and the Foundation usually work with South Florida vendors.—
Michelle Marchante,
Miami Herald,
12 Oct. 2025
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“Nonrepresentative.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/nonrepresentative. Accessed 15 Oct. 2025.
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