a time when people with unorthodox religious views were banished from the colony
raised by an aunt, whose unorthodox parenting practices made for a strange but fun childhood
Recent Examples on the WebTo try to find a way out of the impasse around forming a government — and to avoid everyone’s least favorite option, new elections — politicians have been talking about unorthodox arrangements with little or no precedent.—Claire Moses, New York Times, 11 Mar. 2024 Refuse to let anyone manipulate you using unorthodox means.—Eugenia Last, The Mercury News, 10 Mar. 2024 As the two navigate their unorthodox romance, Solène must also learn to juggle her career and her daughter while avoiding the 24-hour news cycle in pursuit of Campbell.—Zoe G Phillips, The Hollywood Reporter, 6 Mar. 2024 His unorthodox journey to get there was inevitably met with criticism from certain quarters, but Eshun, for one, doesn’t consider journalism and curation all that far removed from one another as disciplines.—Funmi Fetto, Vogue, 5 Mar. 2024 There have been calls for OpenAI to dissolve its nonprofit side, but the unorthodox structure remains in place.—Juliana Kim, NPR, 1 Mar. 2024 Erdogan, who has previously fired central bank governors who spurned his unorthodox policies, appointed the new economic team after getting reelected in May.—Ayse Wieting, Quartz, 8 Feb. 2024 Russian forces have a different threshold of pain, one senior Western official said this month, as well as an unorthodox view of what is considered an acceptable level of military losses.—Anatoly Kurmanaev, New York Times, 27 Feb. 2024 Their remarkable skills and unorthodox methods quickly disrupt the social hierarchy in the club – headed by former world champion Willy – as well as the local youth community.—Annika Pham, Variety, 23 Feb. 2024
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