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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
Adjective
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This understanding can then be used to automate precise real-time threat containment responses, allowing security teams to stop anomalous activity without disrupting normal business operations.—
Marcus Fowler,
Forbes,
13 Jan. 2025
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No broker in the world can sell a leaning tower at twenty-four hundred dollars per square foot, even if the lean is imperceptible to the naked eye, and even though the flaw is not so anomalous.—
Eric Lach,
The New Yorker,
3 Feb. 2025
Adjective
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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
Adjective
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These disease processes and many others can cause abnormal urination habits and should be ruled out by your pet’s veterinarian through an exam and other medical diagnostics.—
Dr. Devon B. Smith,
Baltimore Sun,
20 Feb. 2025
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This type of cancer is caused by abnormal production of white blood cells.—
Gagandeep Brar,
Verywell Health,
14 Feb. 2025
Adjective
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That includes 2003-04, when an atypical strain of flu fueled a particularly treacherous season that killed at least 153 children.—
Amy Maxmen,
CNN,
14 Feb. 2025
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Meanwhile, the always captivating Dafoe, at one point wearing full armor, exhibits a not atypical, full-bodied macho flamboyance as a man who regrets not having a son.—
Carlos Aguilar,
Variety,
27 Jan. 2025
Adjective
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One of the body’s own cells becomes damaged or corrupted and then multiplies to create copies of its aberrant self.—
Ingrid Wickelgren,
Scientific American,
14 Feb. 2025
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This not only paints a wider picture of his life and interests outside his Milan office, but frames his medical specialties as part of this natural world — his focus is the nature of human bodies, desires and impulses — rather than as something aberrant, as in the minds of detractors.—
Siddhant Adlakha,
Variety,
27 Jan. 2025
Adjective
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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
Adjective
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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
Adjective
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Still, any rating on the Torino scale above a 0 is unusual, which is why the world's space agencies have taken notice.—
Eric Lagatta,
USA TODAY,
20 Feb. 2025
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The politics of this tax credit are unusual in the climate world too.—
Zoë Schlanger,
The Atlantic,
19 Feb. 2025
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“Nonrepresentative.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/nonrepresentative. Accessed 3 Mar. 2025.
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