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Recent Examples of nongrammatical
Runyon is writing in a nongrammatical, break-the-rules style.
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San Diego Union-Tribune, 2 July 2019
Runyon is writing in a nongrammatical, break-the-rules style.
—San Diego Union-Tribune, 2 July 2019
San Diego Union-Tribune, 2 July 2019
Runyon is writing in a nongrammatical, break-the-rules style.
—San Diego Union-Tribune, 2 July 2019
Recent Examples of Synonyms for nongrammatical
Adjective
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And in general, the A.I. bots were useful for sharpening prose and cleaning up clunky, ungrammatical sentences.—
Brian X. Chen,
New York Times,
1 Feb. 2023
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That could be useful for conversations where telegraphic, ungrammatical messages would come off as impolite.—
Tom Simonite,
Wired,
18 Oct. 2020
Adjective
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Still, despite the glut of legal graduates, his shift in focus was an unusual move for an ambitious young man in a country where farming is seen as a job for old, uneducated or poor people.—
Carmen Abd Ali,
New York Times,
20 Apr. 2025
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The Catholic Church openly collaborated with the Ustaše, whose support came largely from young men with rural, blue-collar, uneducated backgrounds.—
Larry Luxner,
Sun Sentinel,
5 May 2025
Adjective
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In rural America, patients are more likely to live in substandard housing, lack access to reliable transportation, and face chronic food insecurity.—
Bill Frist,
Forbes.com,
15 July 2025
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King’s House Bill 2453 would require the Railroad Commission, which oversees the oil and gas industry, and the Public Utility Commission to notify electric utilities when substandard power lines are found at well sites or at facilities used for oil and gas development or production.—
Jayme Lozano Carver,
Austin American Statesman,
2 July 2025
Adjective
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Two regional rivals in South America will face off on Friday night when Argentina takes on Uruguay in the third-place game of the women's Copa America.—
Kilty Cleary,
MSNBC Newsweek,
2 Aug. 2025
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Her songwriting eventually landed her a recording contract with Challenge Records, which resulted in a few regional hits and a West Coast tour.—
Lauren Huff Published,
EW.com,
2 Aug. 2025
Adjective
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Beyond access control, a problem that exists for enterprise AI—just like mainstream AI chatbots—is the potential for hallucinations or incorrect responses.—
Megan Poinski,
Forbes.com,
31 July 2025
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Corrections & Clarifications: An earlier version of this article gave incorrect information on how Arizona GOP leader Gina Swoboda dealt with contracts with Turning Point and a company run by Arizona Freedom Caucus leader Jake Hoffman.—
Ray Stern,
AZCentral.com,
30 July 2025
Adjective
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Some are building chatbot therapists trained on dialectical behavior therapy.—
Kolawole Samuel Adebayo,
Forbes.com,
25 July 2025
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The most thrilling moments in my years of teaching drama have come when in the dialectical heat of class discussion, a new way of understanding a scene or a character’s psychology emerges from conflicting perspectives.—
Charles McNulty,
Los Angeles Times,
14 May 2025
Adjective
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Those afflicted with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) often behave in a manner which the unlearned (or uncaring) will immediately label as criminal.—
Killian Baarlaer,
The Courier-Journal,
6 Sep. 2024
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Although the 1973 commission’s report ran to 2,200 pages, some big lessons from 1973 may have gone unlearned—lessons that Israel needed to understand then and still does now.—
Uri Kaufman,
Foreign Affairs,
20 Oct. 2023
Adjective
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Platforms powered by compounders offering medications Big Pharma never prioritized: low-cost combo topicals, precise dosing, and nonstandard formats that reflect real-world patient needs.—
Sindhya Valloppillil,
Forbes.com,
8 July 2025
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The buttons for switching between these sections are across the bottom of the interface, which is itself nonstandard (most people would look to the top of the interface).—
PC Magazine,
PC Magazine,
9 June 2025
Cite this Entry
“Nongrammatical.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/nongrammatical. Accessed 6 Aug. 2025.
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