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Nevadans do not like federal bureaucrats telling them how to vote.11 states have decriminalised possession of small amounts of marijuana, and eight allow use of the drug for medicinal reasonsThe state, which already allows legalised prostitution and gambling, may seem an atypically libertarian sort of place.
And Ralph Nader, whose parents came from Lebanon, won 3% of the presidential vote.Mr Nader's politics may be atypically left-wing: most Arab-Americans have conservative views on subjects such as abortion and school vouchers.
Shrinking numbers get birds publicity, so there may be a causal relationship between their declining numbers and growing popularity (see chart).Second, Britons are atypically enthusiastic about animals.
But Mr Armani's other suitor is an Italian and Mr Arnault's sworn enemy, Domenico De Sole, the boss of Gucci.Perhaps the Mark Rothko painting in his office, just off the Champs Elysées, is a clue to the character of this atypically pragmatic Frenchman.
SINGAPOREAN television showed an atypically interesting programme last week.
Moroder went on to produce Donna Summer, a Europop star who, atypically , became equally successful in the United States.
In the acclaimed film Peck was atypically cast as a vigilante hunting the men who raped and killed his wife.
It followed a Pynchon standby, the detective figure (in this case atypically a New Yorker and a woman), as she dived into the world of the dot-com bubble and surfaced to face the events of 9/11.
During the ensuing Civil War (Caesar against Pompey and the Optimates, 49 45) Metellus was assigned to govern Syria, where his activities are described in an atypically savage passage of Caesar's Civil Wars.
After writing the snappy (if atypically sentimental) screenplay for Leisen's Remember the Night (1940), Sturges directed Christmas in July 19400), a deftly crafted low-budget compendium of comic confusions about a lowly clerk (played by Dick Powell) who goes on a mad shopping spree after mistakenly thinking that he has won $25,000 in a contest.
His first freelance project was the atypically sensitive Stars in My Crown (1950), with Joel McCrea as a Civil War veteran who has become a minister in a small Tennessee town.
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The adverb "atypically" modifies verbs, adjectives, or other adverbs to indicate that an action or characteristic deviates from what is considered normal or standard. Ludwig AI confirms this usage across numerous examples.
Expression frequency: Very common
