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Recent Examples of nonstandard
Maintaining hydration during nonstandard work hours is crucial for good health and minimizing the adverse effects of circadian rhythm disruption.
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Pamela Assid,
Verywell Health,
5 Nov. 2025
WindBorne also plans to use live flight data to allow its weather balloons to autonomously avoid planes, even if planes are flying at a nonstandard altitude, according to the company’s statement.
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Lauren Penington,
Denver Post,
21 Oct. 2025
Take slang, the informal nonstandard language that fills our world.
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Literary Hub,
20 Oct. 2025
The keyboard consists of two freestanding halves with a nonstandard key layout.
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PC Magazine,
13 Oct. 2025
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Pamela Assid,
Verywell Health,
5 Nov. 2025
WindBorne also plans to use live flight data to allow its weather balloons to autonomously avoid planes, even if planes are flying at a nonstandard altitude, according to the company’s statement.
—
Lauren Penington,
Denver Post,
21 Oct. 2025
Take slang, the informal nonstandard language that fills our world.
—
Literary Hub,
20 Oct. 2025
The keyboard consists of two freestanding halves with a nonstandard key layout.
—
PC Magazine,
13 Oct. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for nonstandard
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The dialectic moves between crashing despair and hovering hope.
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Firpi concluded that Saenz should receive dialectical behavioral therapy, or DBT, an intensive therapy originally developed for self-harming women with borderline personality disorder that is now also used to treat PTSD, eating disorders and substance use.
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Food and drink, of course, are among the attractions of a New Orleans journey, and the superb offerings at the hotel—under the direction of Executive Chef Dario Montelvere, a Robb Report culinary master—reflect the city’s heritage, from regional cuisine and local seafood to steakhouse dishes.
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The regional sales tax proposal would generate about $1 billion a year for multiple Bay Area transit agencies.
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Its name refers to the colloquial term once used for Papaya—paw-paw.
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The Solons name refers to an ancient Greek lawmaker, whose name later became a colloquial term for wise legislators, according to the Merriam-Webster dictionary.
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His Bernstein had visceral, vernacular punch; his Verdi was ardent and spry; his Britten had the right textural grit; his Mozart unfurled with complicated grace.
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That’s for sure when people speak patois, a vernacular version of English that’s based on a culture’s intonation.
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As a result, many working-class Korean and Latino immigrant households lived side by side and often confronted similar challenges, including substandard housing conditions, landlord abuses and underfunded public schools.
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So the team studied medical practice laws in other states, actions by their medical boards involving alternative medicine and board orders for substandard care.
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Most of the people on this list worked nonliterary jobs before becoming a successful writer.
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Since the start of the war in Ukraine, more than 272,000 children in Ukraine have benefitted from learning interventions with supplies provided by UNICEF, and over 400,000 children have engaged in formal or nonformal education.
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But even Cunard has nonformal settings where dressed-down can go, including the buffet, casino and pub.
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Here the enduring wisdom of Indian spiritual philosopher Jiddu Krishnamurti, Ojai’s informal patron saint, serves even to hold a recent incursion of ultra-rich to account.
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These employee-to-owner pipelines and apprenticeship-to-owner transitions marked informal forms of employee ownership.
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“Nonstandard.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/nonstandard. Accessed 27 Jun. 2026.
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