nontypical

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Recent Examples of nontypical But there’s a very nontypical story behind this typical 12-point. Alice Jones Webb, Outdoor Life, 11 Dec. 2024 Mule deer fanatics love the bucks’ tendencies to grow nontypical racks full of drop tines, kickers, palmated tines, and other funky features. Katie Hill, Outdoor Life, 14 Feb. 2023 Spillers’ big nontypical whitetail sports 18 points and scored 198 2/8 inches. Scott Bestul, Field & Stream, 9 Jan. 2023 Fifty percent of each purchase will be donated directly to the school, a program that educates typical and nontypical learners in an inclusive environment. Kimber Westphall, Dallas News, 23 July 2021 Included among Kasas’s top recent bucks is Gerald E. Rightmyer’s 272-2/8-inch nontypical taken in 2006 and a 295-inch giant picked up in 2012. Scott Bestul, Field & Stream, 19 Mar. 2021 Sporting 18 scorable points, the 61/2-year-old free-ranging whitetail was recently taped for Texas Big Game Awards at 172 gross and 1634/8 net as a nontypical using the Boone and Crockett scoring system. Matt Williams, Dallas News, 29 Jan. 2021 Ryan Beran watched this 200-plus-inch nontypical buck grow up on his property in Northeast Ohio and was finally able to tag the monster deer this fall. Scott Bestul, Field & Stream, 18 Mar. 2021 In 2017, Kurt started getting trail-cam pics of something unusual on the property—a buck with some nontypical antler growth. Scott Bestul, Field & Stream, 22 Dec. 2020
Recent Examples of Synonyms for nontypical
Adjective
  • The Supreme Court’s 6-3 decision concludes a particularly contentious term with Trump, punctuated by Chief Justice John Roberts issuing an atypical statement in March.
    Naomi Lim, The Washington Examiner, 28 June 2025
  • Authority was centralized in a new reporting group led by Chapek lieutenant Kareem Daniel, who alongside his mentor, exerted atypical control over content decisions.
    Winston Cho, HollywoodReporter, 27 June 2025
Adjective
  • Although the Lakers have had success of their own, the past decade has been somewhat uncharacteristic by their standards.
    Ricardo Klein, MSNBC Newsweek, 18 June 2025
  • The physical and mental toll of this system has shown in the latter parts of the season, with Martinez, who turns 33 on May 17, making some uncharacteristic errors in judgement.
    Anantaajith Raghuraman, New York Times, 16 May 2025
Adjective
  • What to Consider The price is a bit high, but not untypical for a high-quality pair of boots.
    Nathan Borchelt, Travel + Leisure, 26 June 2023
  • The psychiatric staff at Children’s is used to treating the Washington region’s most severely affected kids, and these cases were not untypical of those the doctors and nurses on the inpatient unit had been seeing before the pandemic.
    Judith Warner, Washington Post, 21 Mar. 2022

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“Nontypical.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/nontypical. Accessed 7 Jul. 2025.

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