unconventional
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And she has these really unconventional, unorthodox, eccentric methods to solving cases.
From Los Angeles Times • May 28, 2026
The solution to Henry Ford’s problems was unconventional, even radical.
From Barron's • May 20, 2026
Don’t miss: CoreWeave gets a $7 billion win from an unconventional customer.
From MarketWatch • May 19, 2026
The media mogul, who died Wednesday, was one of baseball’s most unconventional owners, but May 11, 1977, might have been his wildest.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 8, 2026
I had never been to Chicago, but I knew one or two boys who went to Chicago University, and it seemed the sort of place where unconventional, mixed-up people would come from.
From "The Bell Jar" by Sylvia Plath
Vocabulary lists containing unconventional
Power Prefix: un-
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