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Recent Examples of unorthodox The Chaplain will follow airport chaplain Tobias Wallace, who uses decidedly unorthodox methods to solve daily crises. Jesse Whittock, Deadline, 3 Sep. 2025 The president’s unorthodox and unprecedented invocation of IEEPA to impose sweeping duties has been the point of contention at the center of multiple lawsuits brought in recent months. Kate Nishimura, Sourcing Journal, 2 Sep. 2025 Often, such unorthodox registers continually announce themselves, the reader always conscious of their alien presence. Book Marks august 28, Literary Hub, 28 Aug. 2025 But ahead of the company’s IPO, skepticism mounted about CoreWeave’s unorthodox business model. Reed Albergotti, semafor.com, 27 Aug. 2025 See All Example Sentences for unorthodox
Recent Examples of Synonyms for unorthodox
Adjective
  • Hiring him would be the most conventional aspect of a very unconventional media strategy.
    Max Tani, semafor.com, 8 Sep. 2025
  • With an unconventional research approach, a new screenwriter and an unestablished director, so much of the film was a leap of faith.
    Paul Fitzgerald, Rolling Stone, 8 Sep. 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
  • Even as liberal-seeming Amir invites Yusuf to join the Muslim Association, an informal organization of male Arab landowners, Yusuf’s father is killed in a night-time confrontation with the settlers.
    Ritesh Mehta, IndieWire, 5 Sep. 2025
  • The only time this percentage has been higher since City joined the informal ranks of that group was in 2009, at the outset of their Abu Dhabi project.
    Chris Weatherspoon, New York Times, 5 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • Michel was accused of helping Low run foreign-influence campaigns against the U.S., such as funneling money from Low to Barack Obama’s 2012 reelection campaign, as well as lobbying Donald Trump’s administration to drop an investigation into Low and extradite the dissident Chinese billionaire.
    Jon Blistein, Rolling Stone, 2 Sep. 2025
  • The film follows a reclusive mortician who faces an unusual request from a dissident singer in hiding.
    Zac Ntim, Deadline, 20 Aug. 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
  • Too cruel, too pointed, and way too out-there, at least in the world that Roach and McNamara have previously knit together.
    Kate Erbland, IndieWire, 26 Aug. 2025
  • What were some other out-there ideas that never came to fruition?
    Devon Ivie, Vulture, 18 Aug. 2025
Adjective
  • The Mynatts are among the rising ranks of parents and caregivers frustrated by one-size-fits-all schooling who are seeking something more aligned with their values and viewpoints—whether progressive or conservative.
    Kerry McDonald, Forbes.com, 10 Sep. 2025
  • In the 1990s, Bill was decades of biblical study away from that progressive stance.
    Sam Gillette, People.com, 10 Sep. 2025
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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“Unorthodox.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/unorthodox. Accessed 11 Sep. 2025.

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