unorthodox

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With an unorthodox business model that allows it to capitalize on global disruptions, Venture Global raked in billions of dollars in 2022 when Russia throttled gas deliveries to Europe and buyers sought new supplies.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 7, 2026

Tuchel has spoken about Foden as an unorthodox deputy for captain Harry Kane as a central striker, but this would surely be too much of a stretch.

From BBC • Mar. 27, 2026

Movie buffs can bet on the official categories plus some unorthodox ones, such as whether host Conan O’Brien will say “artificial intelligence.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 12, 2026

More unorthodox still is Attia’s rhapsodic ode to rapamycin, a drug derived from an antifungal agent first discovered in the soil of a volcanic crater on Easter Island.

From Slate • Feb. 26, 2026

Yet, as Fiedel conceded to me, the collapse of the Clovis consensus means that archaeologists must consider unorthodox possibilities, including that some other people preceded the ancestors of today’s Indians into the Americas.

From "1491" by Charles C. Mann