nontraditional

/ ˌnɒntrəˈdɪʃənəl /

adjective

1. not traditional; unconventional

   nontraditional lifestyles

Example Sentences

Her journey to cake making wasn’t just nontraditional.

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As the season of shadows arrives, let’s lean into the darkness this year with some nontraditional thrills.

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It coincided with a rise in nontraditional students seeking degrees.

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“Grants — maybe $200 million … 10% of the whole thing. So, we need markets. We need some sort of way to pay for this stuff and in a nontraditional way.”

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And it is in keeping with their principles of activism, which are creative, tech-savvy, a touch punk rock and deeply nontraditional.

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Related Words

• futuristic 
• state-of-the-art