as in unconventional
deviating from commonly accepted beliefs or practices
the professor's out-there political views have made him a lightning rod for controversy on campus
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Recent Examples of out-there
On the accessories front, absolutely everyone is wearing knitted and crocheted caps, plus other out-there hair accessories like bold clips, mega-size scrunchies, and pillbox hats.
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Jake Henry Smith, Glamour, 7 Aug. 2025
Plus, not all pre-employment tests are as out-there as Olive Garden’s and FedEx’s.
—Emma Burleigh, Fortune, 9 July 2025
Guests did not shy from donning some of the designer’s more out-there creations.
—Joelle Diderich, Footwear News, 9 July 2025
Best Backpacking Trip Heart Lake Kick back on the pebbly beach surrounding this out-there lake for a day or two, scoping for trumpeter swans, elk, grizzlies, and wolves in the daytime hours and getting dazzled by the stargazing at night.
—Elisabeth Kwak-Hefferan, Outside Online, 3 June 2025
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Jake Henry Smith, Glamour, 7 Aug. 2025
Plus, not all pre-employment tests are as out-there as Olive Garden’s and FedEx’s.
—Emma Burleigh, Fortune, 9 July 2025
Guests did not shy from donning some of the designer’s more out-there creations.
—Joelle Diderich, Footwear News, 9 July 2025
Best Backpacking Trip Heart Lake Kick back on the pebbly beach surrounding this out-there lake for a day or two, scoping for trumpeter swans, elk, grizzlies, and wolves in the daytime hours and getting dazzled by the stargazing at night.
—Elisabeth Kwak-Hefferan, Outside Online, 3 June 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for out-there
Adjective
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Lopez appeared to have hit his stride—the gown epitomized the unconventional opulence of his design language.—
Ana Karina Zatarain,
New Yorker,
19 Sep. 2025
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Conventional ideas of leisure are sins; the unconventional is redemptive.—
Nicole Flattery,
Harpers Magazine,
19 Sep. 2025
Adjective
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Against this backdrop, IIFMA urged the academy to reconsider its policies regarding film submissions from countries under autocratic rule, suggesting the creation of a special committee for dissident filmmakers.—
Melanie Goodfellow,
Deadline,
16 Sep. 2025
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In Northern Ireland, dissident IRA groups launched attacks even after the Good Friday Agreement was concluded in 1998, which formally ended the Troubles.—
Alpaslan Ozerdem,
The Conversation,
2 Sep. 2025
Adjective
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Board member Renee Paschall cast the lone dissenting vote on the final package.—
Elizabeth Sander,
San Antonio Express-News,
19 Aug. 2022
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The document runs to more than a hundred and fifty pages, and for each question there are affirmative and dissenting studies, as well as some that indicate mixed results.—
The New Yorker,
The New Yorker,
3 June 2022
Adjective
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These statements were heretical in Athens, where Anaxagoras lived.—
Manon Bischoff,
Scientific American,
20 Aug. 2025
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Although the French and Italian religious authorities welcomed their piety, those in Germany tended to suppress them as heretical and revolutionary.—
Michael Robbins,
Harpers Magazine,
20 Aug. 2025
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“Out-there.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/out-there. Accessed 29 Sep. 2025.
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