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Recent Examples of unorthodoxy
Actually, for all its apparent unorthodoxy, Lorblanchet’s work fits right into a new trend in cave art archeology.
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Roger Lewin, Discover Magazine, 11 Nov. 2019
Analysts said the move was the clearest step yet toward more mainstream economic policies after years of unorthodoxy under President Tayyip Erdogan, and should help rein in inflation expectations.
—Reuters, CNN, 24 Aug. 2023
Curious chefs eventually heard about his unorthodoxy and showed up at the restaurant’s counter, then told others.
—Bill Addison, Los Angeles Times, 4 May 2023
And as a man of the theater who directed plays by the likes of Pirandello and Beckett, Camilleri was no stranger to unorthodoxy.
—Washington Post, 8 Oct. 2021
There was no point in questioning the unorthodoxy of starting the waterfowl season this late in the day.
—Christine Cunningham, Anchorage Daily News, 11 Sep. 2021
His occasional instincts to unorthodoxy seem not to be accompanied by the spine to force them on the city’s encrusted forces of inertia.
—The Editors, National Review, 21 June 2021
For all her social unorthodoxy, Isabella was also an intellectual, fluent in both French and Italian, who ran in scholarly social circles who read Dante for their book club.
—Stefanie Waldek, House Beautiful, 16 Apr. 2021
But as the unorthodoxy of the Trump presidency has collided with the crisis of a global pandemic, handshakes have tended to suggest something else: defiance.
—Megan Garber, The Atlantic, 11 May 2020
Roger Lewin, Discover Magazine, 11 Nov. 2019
Analysts said the move was the clearest step yet toward more mainstream economic policies after years of unorthodoxy under President Tayyip Erdogan, and should help rein in inflation expectations.
—Reuters, CNN, 24 Aug. 2023
Curious chefs eventually heard about his unorthodoxy and showed up at the restaurant’s counter, then told others.
—Bill Addison, Los Angeles Times, 4 May 2023
And as a man of the theater who directed plays by the likes of Pirandello and Beckett, Camilleri was no stranger to unorthodoxy.
—Washington Post, 8 Oct. 2021
There was no point in questioning the unorthodoxy of starting the waterfowl season this late in the day.
—Christine Cunningham, Anchorage Daily News, 11 Sep. 2021
His occasional instincts to unorthodoxy seem not to be accompanied by the spine to force them on the city’s encrusted forces of inertia.
—The Editors, National Review, 21 June 2021
For all her social unorthodoxy, Isabella was also an intellectual, fluent in both French and Italian, who ran in scholarly social circles who read Dante for their book club.
—Stefanie Waldek, House Beautiful, 16 Apr. 2021
But as the unorthodoxy of the Trump presidency has collided with the crisis of a global pandemic, handshakes have tended to suggest something else: defiance.
—Megan Garber, The Atlantic, 11 May 2020
Recent Examples of Synonyms for unorthodoxy
Noun
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The evidence suggests that gender nonconformity and diversity is wide and deep in America.—
Barbara J. Risman,
The Conversation,
28 May 2025
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Backlash to trans rights had swollen into one of the animating causes of the Republican Party, whose leaders were evangelizing the notion that gender nonconformity was a social contagion that targeted children and threatened to undermine civilization itself.—
Spencer Kornhaber,
The Atlantic,
22 May 2025
Noun
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A couple of years into her third term, Nabiullina has carved out room for nonconformism in a Russian establishment fixated on loyalty above all else.—
Rachel Ventresca,
Fortune Europe,
7 June 2024
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Tolokonnikova is hardly representative of her generation, but her story hints at the possibility of another future for Russia, one in which nonconformism, tolerance, and individualism become virtues rather than crimes.—
Sarah E. Mendelson,
Foreign Affairs,
15 Dec. 2014
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As of Wednesday, Grok was still reporting that extremism on the right results in more deaths.—
Miles Klee,
Rolling Stone,
18 June 2025
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But at that time, Boelter appeared to show no signs of the violent extremism of which he's now accused, Kalech said.—
Sasha Pezenik,
ABC News,
18 June 2025
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“Unorthodoxy.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/unorthodoxy. Accessed 2 Jul. 2025.
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