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
Plus, not all pre-employment tests are as out-there as Olive Garden’s and FedEx’s.
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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
For now, there’s nothing quite so out-there, although deer blood is the star ingredient in the final dessert, a chocolate-ish (but cocoa-free) fondant served with hazelnut praline and malt ice cream.
—Ann Abel, Forbes.com, 16 Apr. 2025
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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
For now, there’s nothing quite so out-there, although deer blood is the star ingredient in the final dessert, a chocolate-ish (but cocoa-free) fondant served with hazelnut praline and malt ice cream.
—Ann Abel, Forbes.com, 16 Apr. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for out-there
Adjective
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Others were more open to the unconventional dish.—
Deirdre Bardolf,
FOXNews.com,
31 Aug. 2025
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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
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The film follows a reclusive mortician who faces an unusual request from a dissident singer in hiding.—
Zac Ntim,
Deadline,
20 Aug. 2025
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Drawing from her private diaries and thousands of analog photographs, the director charts Jarcovjáková’s life from the dissident art circles of communist Czechoslovakia to high-fashion shoots in Tokyo.—
Scott Roxborough,
HollywoodReporter,
11 Aug. 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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