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unorthodox

[uhn-awr-thuh-doks] / ʌnˈɔr θəˌdɒks /


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As smooth as it sounds, the song’s arrangement is actually somewhat unorthodox, opening with the chorus, and its verses are sparse, the first simply repeating the phrase, “Just bees and things and flowers.”

From Los Angeles Times • May 19, 2026

By the time Rai turned pro as a teenager, and then secured his first European Tour victory in 2018, he trusted his unorthodox methodology.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 18, 2026

The FBI director was also on the Hill this week for a budget hearing and, in an unorthodox strategy for a setting where you’re asking Congress for money, was eager to fight.

From Slate • May 16, 2026

The unorthodox American's short game badly let him down.

From BBC • May 15, 2026

Yet, as Fiedel conceded to me, the collapse of the Clovis consensus means that archaeologists must consider unorthodox possibilities, including that some other people preceded the ancestors of today’s Indians into the Americas.

From "1491" by Charles C. Mann




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