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Recent Examples of nonstandard
The only way to give riders the assurance their helmet is safe is to ensure that nonstandard helmets don’t reach the market.
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Tanya Mohn, Forbes, 24 Feb. 2025
Make a complaint to commercial providers of nonstandard helmets, even transport service providers whose drivers and passengers are not wearing safe helmets.
—Tanya Mohn, Forbes, 24 Feb. 2025
All forms of nonstandard helmets are unsafe helmets.
—Tanya Mohn, Forbes, 24 Feb. 2025
Additionally, the numeric keypad has a nonstandard three-column layout with narrow keys.
—PCMAG, 10 Feb. 2025
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Tanya Mohn, Forbes, 24 Feb. 2025
Make a complaint to commercial providers of nonstandard helmets, even transport service providers whose drivers and passengers are not wearing safe helmets.
—Tanya Mohn, Forbes, 24 Feb. 2025
All forms of nonstandard helmets are unsafe helmets.
—Tanya Mohn, Forbes, 24 Feb. 2025
Additionally, the numeric keypad has a nonstandard three-column layout with narrow keys.
—PCMAG, 10 Feb. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for nonstandard
Adjective
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Some are building chatbot therapists trained on dialectical behavior therapy.—
Kolawole Samuel Adebayo,
Forbes.com,
25 July 2025
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The most thrilling moments in my years of teaching drama have come when in the dialectical heat of class discussion, a new way of understanding a scene or a character’s psychology emerges from conflicting perspectives.—
Charles McNulty,
Los Angeles Times,
14 May 2025
Adjective
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The project represents an ambitious three-way partnership between South Korea’s Film Line, Vietnam’s BHD, and regional powerhouse WebTVAsia.—
Naman Ramachandran,
Variety,
13 Aug. 2025
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While Iran frames its warnings as a measure to deter future attacks, the U.S. and its allies view Iran's intensifying rhetoric as likely to heighten regional tensions.—
Amir Daftari,
MSNBC Newsweek,
13 Aug. 2025
Adjective
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But the colloquial use of the term has prompted criticism from some.—
Rebecca Schneid,
Time,
20 July 2025
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Proposition 12 is the colloquial term for the Farm Animal Confinement Initiative.—
Alan Wooten,
The Washington Examiner,
28 June 2025
Adjective
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The musical tastes and vernacular of Abbie and Leila also come from that era of Martin's life.—
EW.com,
EW.com,
31 July 2025
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There are terms of affection for groups of players like the Busby Babes or Fergie’s Fledglings, but these were coined and used by journalists and not used in everyday vernacular.—
Andy Mitten,
New York Times,
30 July 2025
Adjective
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For more than a dozen years, the Food and Drug Administration quietly allowed substandard foreign factories to continue shipping medications to the United States even after the agency officially banned them from doing so because of dangerous manufacturing failures.—
Debbie Cenziper,
ProPublica,
13 Aug. 2025
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CoreCivic, the for-profit company that operates the prison, vehemently denied the allegations of substandard conditions.—
Laura Gersony,
AZCentral.com,
7 Aug. 2025
Adjective
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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.—
Sarah Ferguson,
Forbes,
18 Aug. 2022
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The 10-to-15-second video clips are a nonformal way to engage your customers and tell them about your products.—
Michael Plummer,
Forbes,
3 June 2022
Adjective
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For years, stablecoins, digital tokens pegged to a fiat currency, operated in a patchwork of state laws, informal guidance, and regulation by enforcement.—
Christer Holloman,
Forbes.com,
12 Aug. 2025
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Valencia had been killed in 2009, before Ricky Pike and his parents had thrown themselves into organizing aid for other families of homicide victims in an informal network of logistical help, money for flowers or transportation and other support.—
Caroline Kubzansky,
Chicago Tribune,
11 Aug. 2025
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“Nonstandard.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/nonstandard. Accessed 20 Aug. 2025.
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