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Recent Examples of nontraditional Jason, whose great-grandparents owned one of the most famous bakeries in Cuba, Lucerna, takes a nontraditional approach to this Cuban. Carlos Frías, Bon Appetit Magazine, 19 Aug. 2025 Financing a church renovation No matter the specific circumstances, buying a church that needs to be renovated to serve as a home will likely require nontraditional financing, according to people who spoke to USA TODAY. Andrea Riquier, USA Today, 13 Aug. 2025 During his first five-year contract, Bennett, his staff and the board winnowed down the company’s budget to better match annual expenses and ticket sales, while also creating the Detour series of smaller, nontraditional opera works to expand the company’s audience. Pam Kragen, San Diego Union-Tribune, 11 Aug. 2025 Outside of Bogota –– the first capital city in Latin America to elect a gay mayor –– many Colombians still openly condemn nontraditional gender roles. Ladan Anoushfar, CNN Money, 6 Aug. 2025 See All Example Sentences for nontraditional
Recent Examples of Synonyms for nontraditional
Adjective
  • Others were more open to the unconventional dish.
    Deirdre Bardolf, FOXNews.com, 31 Aug. 2025
  • Clara Son merges unconventional silhouettes with timeless tailoring to create pieces that feel both deeply personal and universally resonant.
    Roxanne Robinson, Forbes.com, 31 Aug. 2025
Adjective
  • The planes are modern, with the average aircraft being less than seven years old.
    Charlotte Observer, Charlotte Observer, 5 Sep. 2025
  • In the modern game, from Tests to T20s and The Hundred, each side will now tend to include more than one gun fielder.
    James Wallace, New York Times, 5 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • The area is a vast, rural, mountainous tract of forests with a political ethos that resembles Texas more than Los Angeles, San Francisco, the state capital of Sacramento, and other liberal Democratic environs.
    David Mark, The Washington Examiner, 5 Sep. 2025
  • The comments section of the New York Times, once the natural home of blithe, unexamined liberal Zionism, now abounds with people calling for a total suspension of military aid and diplomatic cover.
    Jack Sheehan September 4, Literary Hub, 4 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • Today’s progressive lenses offer a workaround.
    Daniel Fusch, USA Today, 3 Sep. 2025
  • Radcliffe is Newland Archer, a handsome, progressive, and intelligent society gentleman who craves a deeper and more passionate connection to the world and someone in it.
    Rosy Cordero, Deadline, 2 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • The program aims to demonstrate the breadth and depth of their art form — with pieces spanning the classical, folkloric, contemporary and flamenco styles — and the company’s half-century of output, earning them apt praise both here and abroad.
    Lauren Warnecke, Chicago Tribune, 3 Sep. 2025
  • The film explores contemporary anxieties, echoing school shootings and societal unrest.
    Bill Goodykoontz, AZCentral.com, 3 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • Green Berets are training alongside Mexico’s elite marine infantry units in conventional and nonconventional combat techniques.
    Risa Brooks, Foreign Affairs, 8 Apr. 2025
  • After building two lucrative businesses, the serial entrepreneur and attorney set her sights on ensuring her family was also a success in a nonconventional way.
    Jasmine Browley, Essence, 6 Oct. 2024
Adjective
  • As in the crowded Arsenale itself, anything more radical to be found in the pavilion is buried under dioramas and walls of texts.
    Kate Wagner, Curbed, 5 Sep. 2025
  • To be clear, this isn’t a radical new idea.
    Wendy Barnes, Fortune, 5 Sep. 2025

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“Nontraditional.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/nontraditional. Accessed 9 Sep. 2025.

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