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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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Look, the game is about first impressions and making decisions that are sort of uneducated.—
Michael Cuby,
Them.,
31 Mar. 2025
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Similar views applied to immigrants from southern and eastern Europe, whom many Americans regarded as poor, uneducated, and inferior.—
Made by History,
Time,
26 Mar. 2025
Adjective
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The provision for credit losses increased to $1.4 million from $246,000, reflecting growth in the loan portfolio and increased substandard loans.—
Quartz Intelligence Newsroom,
Quartz,
14 Mar. 2025
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Both Noem and President Trump’s Border czar, Tom Homan, have pinned the blame for immigration enforcement raids being revealed ahead of time and the substandard U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) numbers of arrests on internal leakers.—
Filip Timotija,
The Hill,
8 Mar. 2025
Adjective
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Max Murray was 4 for 5 with a home run, 3 runs scored and 2 RBIs for the Huskies in the regional quarterfinal series win.—
Steve Gorches,
The Orlando Sentinel,
27 Apr. 2025
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Southlake Carroll reached the regional semifinals, where it was eliminated by Denton Guyer, an eventual state runner-up.—
Charles Baggarly,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
26 Apr. 2025
Adjective
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If a player guesses incorrect groups of words four times, the game ends, and they are defeated.—
Thomas G. Moukawsher,
MSNBC Newsweek,
27 Apr. 2025
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Many patients walk away with incorrect prescriptions.—
Kaitlyn Gomez,
USA Today,
27 Apr. 2025
Adjective
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This is the astonishing dialectical power of the moment.—
D. Graham Burnett,
New Yorker,
26 Apr. 2025
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There are plenty of styles associated with therapy, such as cognitive-behavioral therapy (CBT), psychodynamic therapy, humanistic therapy, dialectical behavioral therapy (DBT), and many others.—
Lance Eliot,
Forbes.com,
22 Apr. 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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The only way to give riders the assurance their helmet is safe is to ensure that nonstandard helmets don’t reach the market.—
Tanya Mohn,
Forbes,
24 Feb. 2025
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All forms of nonstandard helmets are unsafe helmets.—
Tanya Mohn,
Forbes,
24 Feb. 2025
Cite this Entry
“Nongrammatical.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/nongrammatical. Accessed 1 May. 2025.
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