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atypical
adjective
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Different from the usual pattern or type.
The unusually short agenda made this an atypical meeting.
Dictionary practice example.
An archive volunteer noticed an anomaly in a box of carefully numbered photographs: two unrelated pictures carried the same identification code. She initially treated the duplicate as an aberration in an otherwise orderly catalog. The mismatch was atypical of the collection, whose labels usually followed a consistent pattern.
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