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Recent Examples of nonstandard
The lossy capture cards also often had trouble correctly interpreting the multiple streams of overlapping video data that could be arranged in nonstandard ways on a LaserActive disc.
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Kyle Orland, ArsTechnica, 2 Sep. 2025
Platforms powered by compounders offering medications Big Pharma never prioritized: low-cost combo topicals, precise dosing, and nonstandard formats that reflect real-world patient needs.
—Sindhya Valloppillil, Forbes.com, 8 July 2025
The only way to give riders the assurance their helmet is safe is to ensure that nonstandard helmets don’t reach the market.
—Tanya Mohn, Forbes, 24 Feb. 2025
To evaluate the effects of these nonstandard positions, researchers recruited 133 adults for this study.
—Don Rauf, EverydayHealth.com, 10 Oct. 2024
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Kyle Orland, ArsTechnica, 2 Sep. 2025
Platforms powered by compounders offering medications Big Pharma never prioritized: low-cost combo topicals, precise dosing, and nonstandard formats that reflect real-world patient needs.
—Sindhya Valloppillil, Forbes.com, 8 July 2025
The only way to give riders the assurance their helmet is safe is to ensure that nonstandard helmets don’t reach the market.
—Tanya Mohn, Forbes, 24 Feb. 2025
To evaluate the effects of these nonstandard positions, researchers recruited 133 adults for this study.
—Don Rauf, EverydayHealth.com, 10 Oct. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for nonstandard
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Urbano’s work evokes a complex past that hasn’t yet occurred and a future that already has—a present that has always already been, to employ the idea of non-dialectical temporality favored by philosopher Maurice Blanchot.—
Javier Montes,
Artforum,
1 Jan. 2026
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Julia also underwent intensive therapy, including DBT [dialectical behavior therapy], especially after their daughter was born.—
Daniella Gray,
MSNBC Newsweek,
29 Nov. 2025
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Israeli attacks weakened Iran’s regional armed proxy groups such as Hamas and Hezbollahwhile US strikes dealt significant damage to the country’s nuclear program, which the government spent billions to develop.—
Mitchell McCluskey,
CNN Money,
12 Jan. 2026
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Finally, leaders of remote employees need to invest in in-person resources and experiences, whether that be coworking space, regional team meetups, all-company summits, or all of the above.—
Justin Harlan,
Fortune,
11 Jan. 2026
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The colloquial term Paczki Day is used for Fat Tuesday or Mardi Gras.—
Jelissa Burns,
Freep.com,
6 Jan. 2026
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In this context, something as small and lightweight as a pair of earrings could serve as the colloquial glue that united people under one national identity, at a moment in history when destabilization and separation were the modi operandi of a country sharing a border with Ukraine.—
Stacia Datskovska,
Footwear News,
30 Dec. 2025
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The rooms Guest rooms and suites have been nearly completely redone, corner to corner, and brought into a modern design vernacular.—
Condé Nast,
Condé Nast Traveler,
8 Jan. 2026
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The Upside Down, a dark, gooey parallel universe of Hawkins, and its predatory demogorgons became part of their middle school vernacular.—
Lorraine Ali,
Boston Herald,
30 Nov. 2025
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The case highlighted broader substandard working and housing conditions for pickers, including excessive working hours, low pay, a lack of safety equipment and protocols, such as adequate hydration and breaks.—
Holly Ellyatt,Charlotte Reed,
CNBC,
31 Dec. 2025
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City officials and police have pointed the finger of blame at construction companies for allegedly using substandard mesh netting to wrap scaffolding on the buildings and multiple arrests have been made.—
Chris Lau,
CNN Money,
19 Dec. 2025
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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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But even Cunard has nonformal settings where dressed-down can go, including the buffet, casino and pub.—
Hannah Sampson,
Houston Chronicle,
20 Dec. 2019
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Tip amounts received from other employees paid out through tip pools, tip splitting, or other formal/informal tip-sharing arrangements.—
Marley Malenfant,
Austin American Statesman,
14 Jan. 2026
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However, an informal, expatriate group of academics and professionals told TIME on Sunday that, per their calculations, protester deaths could have reached 6,000 through Saturday.—
Richard Hall,
Time,
14 Jan. 2026
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“Nonstandard.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/nonstandard. Accessed 15 Jan. 2026.
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