nonstandard
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The government presented evidence to show how, despite having no medical training, He dictated medical practice at the company and was ultimately responsible for its nonstandard prescription practices.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 8, 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
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
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
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