atypical
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The album is loaded with Anthrax trademarks — serrated, crunchy riffs, soaring lead vocals, bludgeoning beats, and scorching guitar — but there are also galactic noise effects, angular song structures and atypical chord configurations.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 17, 2026
"CD4 CTLs are an atypical and relatively rare T cell population," Hashimoto says.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 25, 2026
"With atypical absences that last longer, people may have automatic movements like fidgeting with their hands, eyelid fluttering and lip smacking. Some people may fall."
From BBC ● Aug. 19, 2026
Another way in which Etched is atypical is in how much of its supply chain it owns and controls.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 18, 2026
The book was filled with complicated sentences explaining Henrietta’s cells by saying, “its atypical histology may correlate with the unusually malignant behavior of the carcinoma,” and something about the “correlate of the tumor’s singularity.”
From "The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks" by Rebecca Skloot
Vocabulary lists containing atypical
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