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  • adverb Alternative form of atypically.

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  • adverb in a manner that is not typical

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Examples

  • Not untypically, Virgin Trains is 49% owned by another transport group, Stagecoach.

    Virgin brands: What does Richard Branson really own? 2012

  • Of course, this "defendant" hadn't, but there were people who were also in the business of "antiquities collecting" (as it is sometimes euphemistically referred to) who had, namely the unnamed eminence grise behind Michael Baigent's most recent and rather untypically somewhat lightweight, "The Jesus Papers" (Harper Collins, 2006).

    Robert Eisenman: The James Ossuary: Is It Authentic? (An Update) Robert Eisenman 2011

  • Always at his best out on the training field, he was said to become increasingly and untypically remote, and he left, after considerable vocal encouragement from Leeds fans, in 1980.

    Jimmy Adamson obituary 2011

  • My Jewish protagonist was based on an untypically shabby German I'd seen wandering around Bombay.

    Voice of the East, Heard From the West Vibhuti Patel 2011

  • How, had they kept mothers much in mind, would the National's collaborators have gone ahead and quoted a London Road resident expressing, true to Blythe's research, and not untypically, her relief that the neighbourhood has improved?

    We shouldn't make entertainment out of others' tragedy | Catherine Bennett 2011

  • In truth, they were fortunate that Lionel Messi so untypically missed two clear chances to score and that the referee denied Barcelona a plausible penalty claim, but still there were signs that Wenger's constant reiteration of a belief in his side's "spirit" indeed had some substance.

    Arsène Wenger's sense of injustice veils deep-lying Arsenal issues | Richard Williams 2011

  • Aversion to niche pitches runs all the way from ITV's schoolmasterly Peter Fincham ( "niche interest programme proposals may be better directed at a niche interest channel"), via Sky's untypically blunt Stuart Murphy (ideas "can't be niche"), to even More4's seemingly fed-up Hamish Mykura (who has had his fill of "programmes people bring me that are too small and niche to survive elsewhere").

    Why don't TV controllers want to find a niche? 2010

  • Nor with Gilles Jacob, president of the Festival, who, it must be remarked, also reacted untypically, for him, when interviewed by the same radio station: "There's the film maker and the citizen; the film maker is an immense film maker, but then there's the citizen, and no one is above the law."

    Bernard-Henri Lévy: Why I Defend Polanski, More Than Ever Bernard-Henri Lévy 2010

  • But, rather untypically, after I had waved the golden carrot, I proceeded to brandish a very sharp stick.

    Dealings Felix Rohatyn 2010

  • Nor with Gilles Jacob, president of the Festival, who, it must be remarked, also reacted untypically, for him, when interviewed by the same radio station: "There's the film maker and the citizen; the film maker is an immense film maker, but then there's the citizen, and no one is above the law."

    Bernard-Henri Lévy: Why I Defend Polanski, More Than Ever 2010

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