Word: unorthodox
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...removed from the usual concerns of a state attorney general, battling coal-burning power companies over acid rain, gun manufacturers over product liability, grocers for exploiting immigrant workers. Spitzer and the team of lawyers he recruited from the ranks of prestigious law firms and federal prosecutors' offices often work unorthodox legal strategies, dusting off little-used laws to help their cause. In the fight with Merrill, for example, New York relied on the Martin Act of 1921 for authority to pursue Merrill without having to prove the firm intended to dupe investors...
Alson says that his experiences in Dudley were unorthodox...
...bullpen with assistant coach Gary Donovan during the top of the second, and whatever they worked on seemed to settle Hordon down. The righty retired eight of the next eleven batters to keep the Crimson in the game until the fifth, complementing his fastball and slider with an unorthodox slow curveball that kept the normally-explosive Rice batters guessing...
...suggests—that the assumption is so cosmic that it might be accepted. It is rarely “accepted;” we aren’t here to accept or reject—we’re here to be amused. The more dazzling, personal, unorthodox, paradoxic your assumptions (paradoxes are not equivocations), the more interesting an essay is likely to be. (If you have a chance to confer with the assistant in advance, of course—and we all like to be called “assistants,” not “graders?...
Beyond Bush's advisers, objective monitors too are convinced that Saddam possesses hidden chemical and biological weapons and is working feverishly to build a still elusive nuclear bomb. He's a serial aggressor. Sept. 11 probably opened Saddam's eyes to powerful and unorthodox methods of attack. Terrorists want weapons of mass destruction, and he has them. "The lesson of 9/11 for us," says a senior State Department official, "is you can't wait around...