nontypical

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Recent Examples of nontypical 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 Spillers’ big nontypical whitetail sports 18 points and scored 198 2/8 inches. Scott Bestul, Field & Stream, 9 Jan. 2023 Fifty percent of each purchase will be donated directly to the school, a program that educates typical and nontypical learners in an inclusive environment. Kimber Westphall, Dallas News, 23 July 2021 Included among Kasas’s top recent bucks is Gerald E. Rightmyer’s 272-2/8-inch nontypical taken in 2006 and a 295-inch giant picked up in 2012. Scott Bestul, Field & Stream, 19 Mar. 2021 Sporting 18 scorable points, the 61/2-year-old free-ranging whitetail was recently taped for Texas Big Game Awards at 172 gross and 1634/8 net as a nontypical using the Boone and Crockett scoring system. Matt Williams, Dallas News, 29 Jan. 2021 Ryan Beran watched this 200-plus-inch nontypical buck grow up on his property in Northeast Ohio and was finally able to tag the monster deer this fall. Scott Bestul, Field & Stream, 18 Mar. 2021 The monster nontypical has 21 scoreable point and green grossed 236-7/8 inches. Scott Bestul, Field & Stream, 8 Dec. 2020 In 2017, Kurt started getting trail-cam pics of something unusual on the property—a buck with some nontypical antler growth. Scott Bestul, Field & Stream, 22 Dec. 2020
Recent Examples of Synonyms for nontypical
Adjective
  • 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
  • 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
  • Denver turned the ball over 20 times last night, with Jokic having an uncharacteristic six turnovers himself.
    Mikai Bruce, Forbes, 23 Feb. 2025
  • The game was tied 34-34 with just over five minutes to go in the third quarter, but Bryant began to ramp up its pressure and force the Golden Hurricane into a rash of uncharacteristic turnovers.
    Erick Taylor, arkansasonline.com, 8 Feb. 2025
Adjective
  • 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
  • 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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“Nontypical.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/nontypical. Accessed 3 Mar. 2025.

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