nonstandard

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The chip maker last week said it would no longer exclude stock-based compensation expense from its nonstandard financial metrics, starting with the current quarter.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 4, 2026

"We actually had to do something nonstandard to achieve this," Bonagiri said.

From Science Daily • Feb. 29, 2024

Anyone who pursues a nonstandard creative career in America and doesn’t have generational wealth or a rich spouse will likely hold at least two jobs.

From Slate • Jan. 3, 2024

However, they don’t fit nonstandard spaces very well, and they’re harder to retrofit into existing spaces, so they work best in new construction.

From Seattle Times • Jun. 13, 2023

As originally conceived, in 2003, the subprime mortgage credit default swap was a one-off, nonstandard insurance contract, struck between Morgan Stanley and some other bank or insurance company, outside the gaze of the wider market.

From "The Big Short" by Michael Lewis