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abnormal

[ab-nawr-muhl] / æbˈnɔr məl /


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She has never been diagnosed with an underlying seizure disorder, such as epilepsy, and a medical test to provoke a seizure in Linton after the crash came back with no abnormal brain activity, prosecutors said.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 2, 2026

“We have seen some of the most radical and abnormal swings in fuel prices that we’ve ever seen,” said Delco.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 26, 2026

Once the catheter reaches the genicular arteries around the knee, the team releases tiny beads into abnormal blood vessels associated with the painful, inflamed areas identified by the patient.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 22, 2026

Already before El Nino hit, rivers worldwide were showing "abnormal" flows, WMO said, with 2025 among the three driest years for rivers in 35 years.

From Barron's ● Sep. 17, 2026

Only a few years hence, MIT president Karl Compton, himself a physicist with a cyclotron at his command, would issue his lament about the introduction of “an abnormal competitive element” into academic science.

From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik




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