as in unconventional
deviating from commonly accepted beliefs or practices
the professor's out-there political views have made him a lightning rod for controversy on campus
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Recent Examples of out-there
There was a lot of performance art – really weird, interesting, out-there performance theaters were going.
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Duante Beddingfield, Detroit Free Press, 21 Nov. 2024
Wiles' TikTok account, with more than 60,000 followers, features skits of Vance with thick eyeliner and touting out-there political suggestions.
—Kinsey Crowley, USA TODAY, 2 Nov. 2024
Both filmmakers and composers thrive on raising the out-there bar on one another, resulting in the alternate grunt track.
—Scott Huver, Deadline, 2 Nov. 2024
The best celebrity Halloween costumes of 2023 Heidi Klum as a worm in 2022
Arguably her most out-there costume to date, Klum showed up at her annual Halloween party as a giant worm.
—Madeline Boardman, EW.com, 30 Oct. 2024
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Duante Beddingfield, Detroit Free Press, 21 Nov. 2024
Wiles' TikTok account, with more than 60,000 followers, features skits of Vance with thick eyeliner and touting out-there political suggestions.
—Kinsey Crowley, USA TODAY, 2 Nov. 2024
Both filmmakers and composers thrive on raising the out-there bar on one another, resulting in the alternate grunt track.
—Scott Huver, Deadline, 2 Nov. 2024
The best celebrity Halloween costumes of 2023 Heidi Klum as a worm in 2022
Arguably her most out-there costume to date, Klum showed up at her annual Halloween party as a giant worm.
—Madeline Boardman, EW.com, 30 Oct. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for out-there
Adjective
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To further enhance its defenses, potential Russian targets have adopted several unconventional air-defense techniques, including the installation of large nets around critical infrastructure to ensnare incoming drones.—
Vikram Mittal,
Forbes,
24 Jan. 2025
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Jack De Mave, who portrayed a U.S. forest ranger on Lassie and an unconventional date for Valerie Harper’s Rhoda Morgenstern on the second episode of The Mary Tyler Moore Show, has died.—
Mike Barnes,
The Hollywood Reporter,
23 Jan. 2025
Adjective
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Ferrer, the leader of the dissident organization Unión Patriótica de Cuba, was one of the most prominent political prisoners the Cuban government had been holding as bargaining chips.—
Nora Gámez Torres,
Miami Herald,
17 Jan. 2025
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Sacred Fig offers Academy voters the rare chance to pick a film from a dissident director.—
Scott Roxborough,
The Hollywood Reporter,
10 Jan. 2025
Adjective
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In the dissenting view, the star collapses to the edge of the event horizon and then hovers there, or rebounds and explodes.—
Corey S. Powell,
Discover Magazine,
26 Feb. 2015
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The document runs to more than a hundred and fifty pages, and for each question there are affirmative and dissenting studies, as well as some that indicate mixed results.—
The New Yorker,
The New Yorker,
3 June 2022
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Al-Assad was part of the Alawite community, a group seen as heretical by some opposition fighters.—
Niraj Warikoo,
Detroit Free Press,
8 Dec. 2024
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Cities Start to Question an American Ideal: A House With a Yard on Every Lot Single-family zoning is practically gospel in America, but a number of officials across the country are starting to make seemingly heretical moves. Sept. 2019 56.—
The Upshot Staff,
New York Times,
27 Apr. 2024
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