unconventional
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With the Colorado River in crisis, Arizona and Nevada are turning to an unconventional life line: the ocean water off California’s golden beaches.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 16, 2026
January’s pick was Ali Rosen, who was promoting her romance novel, “The Slow Burn,” at one of the more unconventional stops on her book tour.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 16, 2026
The prescribed Core-X treatment programme - based on ensuring alignment between muscles in different parts of the body - was unconventional at the time.
From BBC • Apr. 14, 2026
This culture helped Palantir recruit top, and admittedly unconventional, talent.
From MarketWatch • Apr. 4, 2026
Foege was one of the people responsible for the eradication of smallpox in the world and was known to favor unconventional solutions to supposedly impossible problems.
From "Mountains Beyond Mountains" by Tracy Kidder and Michael French
Vocabulary lists containing unconventional
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