nonstandard
Example Sentences
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While that earnings multiple reflects official results, management also directs investors to nonstandard versions that make earnings look bigger and the valuation appear lower.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 11, 2026
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
Laboratory experiments confirmed that PapB successfully created these ring structures, even when the peptides included nonstandard building blocks commonly used in modern incretin drugs.
From Science Daily ● Apr. 28, 2026
Some have more nonstandard options like gift cards or Amazon Pay.
From Salon ● Feb. 11, 2026
Double negatives, ain’t, and other nonstandard forms soon became stigmatized by their association with the less prestigious dialects of English used by its poorer and less educated speakers.
From "The Sense of Style" by Steven Pinker
