unconventional
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For three seasons, Jimmy, a therapist grieving the loss of his wife, has used unconventional methods —think taking someone with aggression issues to a boxing ring — to get through to his patients.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 9, 2026
Producer Robin Hiley, whose wife is a palliative care doctor, acknowledged that the failure of antibiotics might seem an unconventional subject for musical theatre.
From BBC • Apr. 5, 2026
The SpaceX IPO will be just as unconventional as Musk himself.
From MarketWatch • Mar. 27, 2026
Elon Musk plans an unconventional IPO, including investor visits to SpaceX facilities and allocating as much as a third or more of shares to individual investors.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 27, 2026
As part of their unconventional wedding ceremony, Blackwell renounced his legal privileges as husband, and Stone announced that she would keep her own name.
From "Votes for Women!" by Winifred Conkling
Vocabulary lists containing unconventional
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