nonstandard

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Recent Examples of nonstandard 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 buttons for switching between these sections are across the bottom of the interface, which is itself nonstandard (most people would look to the top of the interface). PC Magazine, 9 June 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 Additionally, the numeric keypad has a nonstandard three-column layout with narrow keys. PCMAG, 10 Feb. 2025 See All Example Sentences for nonstandard
Recent Examples of Synonyms for nonstandard
Adjective
  • Kirsh sets the tone for the brainier side of this episode via two of this episode’s punchier scenes — ones where the dialectic dialogue really pops.
    Noel Murray, Vulture, 10 Sep. 2025
  • Some are building chatbot therapists trained on dialectical behavior therapy.
    Kolawole Samuel Adebayo, Forbes.com, 25 July 2025
Adjective
  • Runnymede in Surrey was another central regional hub, with cattle brought from a distance.
    Maria Mocerino, Interesting Engineering, 13 Sep. 2025
  • But this year, their sense of safety was shattered when two regional powers conducted a direct strike on a Gulf country for the first time.
    Mostafa Salem, CNN Money, 13 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • Cervantes’ writings mixes a high-style and an extraordinary realism, in ordinary life detail and colloquial dialogue.
    John Hopewell, Variety, 5 Sep. 2025
  • This isn’t about a desire for simpler, colloquial language.
    James Folta, Literary Hub, 4 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • For such an insistence on democracy, the pavilion is curiously tepid in its politics, save for a kind of vernacular populism and some PBS-esque nods to the Gee’s Bend quilters.
    Kate Wagner, Curbed, 5 Sep. 2025
  • Once again, his use of vernacular and social media address appeared to be mocking the President’s own style.
    Callum Sutherland, Time, 3 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • It was created to address urban problems, including substandard and deteriorating housing, and to coordinate federal housing and urban development policies more effectively.
    Lorenzino Estrada, AZCentral.com, 9 Sep. 2025
  • Last year, China’s Supreme People’s Procuratorate reported prosecuting 21,404 individuals for producing and selling counterfeit and substandard goods.
    Haicen Yang, CNN Money, 5 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • 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
  • But even Cunard has nonformal settings where dressed-down can go, including the buffet, casino and pub.
    Hannah Sampson, Houston Chronicle, 20 Dec. 2019
Adjective
  • Protesters signaled their support for Karki through an informal vote on the messaging app Discord.
    Sugam Pokharel, CNN Money, 12 Sep. 2025
  • Bolsonaro's presidency was marked by intense skepticism about the pandemic and vaccines and his embrace of informal mining and land-clearing for cattle grazing, pushing deforestation rates in the Amazon rainforest to record highs.
    Ricardo Brito, USA Today, 11 Sep. 2025

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“Nonstandard.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/nonstandard. Accessed 17 Sep. 2025.

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