Definition of "out-of-the-box" [out-of-the-box]

• Alternative form of out of the box. (especially in attributive use) (phrase)

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• "Trance has been used to generally cover all fringe and out-of-the-box experiences, from possession to shamanism, divination, spiritualism, mysticism, and psychoanalysis."
• "One sure fire way for pizza chefs to distinguish their creations is to delight customers' taste buds with out-of-the-box topping combinations."
• "Do this all day, every day, and when you get back home you will not remember much about what happened, unless it is something your brain collects and retains for after-hours rumination, such as a certain set of numbers that do not add up the way a certain corporate agenda team wants them to, and all you can do is reshuffle, reconsider, find an out-of-the-box method to force them into that particularly peculiar submission."