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Recent Examples of nonrepresentative
In open session, the board heard reports on summer school and district demographics, and approved raises and a benefits increase for Classified Confidential, Supervisory, and Management nonrepresentative groups retroactive to July 1, 2022.
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Laura Groch, San Diego Union-Tribune, 7 May 2023
In those cases, small, nonrepresentative subsets of users self-select to curate material, and each one can see what the others are doing.
—Gilad Edelman, Wired, 1 Sep. 2021
The episode is perfect insight into mainstream American views of othered places — Africa or Asia, New Orleans or Compton — a story limned by limited outsiders and thus nonrepresentative, objectified and objectionable.
—Tunde Wey, San Francisco Chronicle, 18 Mar. 2018
Laura Groch, San Diego Union-Tribune, 7 May 2023
In those cases, small, nonrepresentative subsets of users self-select to curate material, and each one can see what the others are doing.
—Gilad Edelman, Wired, 1 Sep. 2021
The episode is perfect insight into mainstream American views of othered places — Africa or Asia, New Orleans or Compton — a story limned by limited outsiders and thus nonrepresentative, objectified and objectionable.
—Tunde Wey, San Francisco Chronicle, 18 Mar. 2018
Recent Examples of Synonyms for nonrepresentative
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Democratic pundits were quick to assert that the results were anomalous, but post-election analyses showed that the shift was widespread.The New Yorker, The New Yorker, 5 Nov. 2024
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This time around, with more money on the line and election denialism already in the air, a contested election could result in even more anomalous election odds after the polls close.Lila Shroff, The Atlantic, 31 Oct. 2024
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Such odds and ends of deviant behavior don’t add up to a coherent personality, much less an ideology that could help tip the film into genuine provocation.J. Kim Murphy, Variety, 10 Sep. 2024
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Maynard taught at various schools, including as an adjunct faculty member in Santa Clara University’s sociology department and as a lecturer at Sonoma State University specializing in criminal justice, cults and deviant behavior.Ishani Desai, Sacramento Bee, 30 May 2024
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The decrease is attributed to the non-recurrence of prior year abnormal backlog deliveries and lower total demand.Quartz Bot, Quartz, 7 Nov. 2024
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Treatments for abnormal ferritin levels may include eating iron-rich foods like lean salmon, leafy green vegetables, and beans.Lindsay Curtis, Health, 5 Nov. 2024
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Currently, access to the Danube from the channels of the wetlands is impossible due to unusually low water levels, which is atypical for this time of year when the waters are normally at their highest in spring.PhotoVogue, Vogue, 28 Oct. 2024
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The glowing, otherworldly look is complemented by an atypical approach to gore that was inspired by a DIY toy Siegel saw in a toddler’s play place.Alison Foreman, IndieWire, 7 Oct. 2024
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However, a late-October rally in Trump’s odds was a result of aberrant betting behavior from just 1% of Polymarket’s users, according to Bloomberg.Paolo Confino, Fortune, 5 Nov. 2024
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But Trump’s conduct has been so aberrant for so long that separating genuine deterioration from routine volatility is no easy task—on what basis does one judge oscillations in something without precedent in public life?Dhruv Khullar, The New Yorker, 27 Oct. 2024
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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
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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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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
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Spillers’ big nontypical whitetail sports 18 points and scored 198 2/8 inches.Scott Bestul, Field & Stream, 9 Jan. 2023
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It's more accurately seen as a return to the township's Republican norm, after one unusual term with a Democrat in charge.Bill Laytner, Detroit Free Press, 6 Nov. 2024
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The retirement of Chiarello made this race an unusual exercise for South Bay voters who got to choose between two candidates.Robert Salonga, The Mercury News, 6 Nov. 2024
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“Nonrepresentative.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/nonrepresentative. Accessed 21 Nov. 2024.
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