nonstandard
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The U.S. military is using nonstandard contracts and tasking defense contractors to design new weapons from scratch to cut years of production time and hundreds of millions of dollars off their cost.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 15, 2026
The obscurity condemned by Johnson derives in part from Shakespeare’s readiness to draw on vocabulary that would have struck even his contemporaries as bewilderingly nonstandard.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 22, 2026
Some have more nonstandard options like gift cards or Amazon Pay.
From Salon ● Feb. 11, 2026
"We actually had to do something nonstandard to achieve this," Bonagiri said.
From Science Daily ● Feb. 29, 2024
Figure 1.8: It is rare these days to see the G and F clefs in these nonstandard positions.
From "Understanding Basic Music Theory" by Catherine Schmidt-Jones and Russel Jones
