nonorthodox
Britishadjective
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There is more Republican support for a nonorthodox answer than people would like to think.
From Scientific American
“As a nonorthodox Christian, my life was in danger in Eritrea,” he said, as he holds his hand on his bible, which he carried all the way from his home country.
‘As a nonorthodox Christian, my life was in danger in Eritrea.’
Stanford offers its medical students a course that examines the alternatives, and its Center for Research in Disease Prevention is one of 10 centers nationwide that participate in a federally funded project to evaluate promising nonorthodox treatments.
From Time Magazine Archive
Elsewhere, a Jew who is at all religiously observant will, more often than not, be Orthodox; of Israel's 6,000 synagogues, only nine are nonOrthodox.
From Time Magazine Archive
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