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
  • No broker in the world can sell a leaning tower at twenty-four hundred dollars per square foot, even if the lean is imperceptible to the naked eye, and even though the flaw is not so anomalous.
    Eric Lach, The New Yorker, 3 Feb. 2025
  • Tracking Unusual Transactions Upgrading from Bitdefender Ultimate Security Plus to the Extended edition adds monitoring for anomalous transactions.
    PCMAG, PCMAG, 22 Jan. 2025
Adjective
  • 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
  • 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
  • Amyloidosis is a rare disease where bone marrow produces an abnormal protein called amyloid, according to the University of Kansas Cancer Center.
    PJ Green, Kansas City Star, 5 Feb. 2025
  • In darker skin tones, abnormal paleness may be easier to detect in the inner mouth and lining of the eyes.5 4.
    Isabel Vasquez RD LDN, Health, 4 Feb. 2025
Adjective
  • Somers has taken a bit of an atypical path on her way to becoming a professional fighter.
    Steve Millar, Chicago Tribune, 6 Feb. 2025
  • Occasional incorrectly reported, atypical home sales and special circumstances may be listed or alter the average cost per square foot.
    Bay Area News Group, The Mercury News, 3 Feb. 2025
Adjective
  • Again, the answer lies in the collective mindset of reality TV, whose fans are highly tolerant of aberrant behavior and quick to forgive missteps.
    Meredith Blake, Los Angeles Times, 19 Jan. 2025
  • But the more people speak up against such aberrant behavior, the more likely those who are inclined toward violence will be persuaded that engaging their fellow citizens nonviolently is the more patriotic course of action.
    Reuben E. Brigety II, Foreign Affairs, 19 Oct. 2020
Adjective
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • Spillers’ big nontypical whitetail sports 18 points and scored 198 2/8 inches.
    Scott Bestul, Field & Stream, 9 Jan. 2023
Adjective
  • Available in three sophisticated shades – carbon, affogato, and flute (a light, blue-tinged grey) – it’s spun from 100% cashmere sourced from a prestigious Italian mill regarded as the world’s finest, and knitted to be a double-faced jersey, which is unusual.
    Benedict Browne, Robb Report, 7 Feb. 2025
  • Local business ads sometimes ran to 10 pages with 30 plus Christmas business ads not being unusual and 12- 14 bars invited you to visit them.
    Bob Roepke, Twin Cities, 7 Feb. 2025

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“Nonrepresentative.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/nonrepresentative. Accessed 13 Feb. 2025.

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