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anomaly

noun as in deviation from normal, usual

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Its head Alun Jones said regulation has not kept up, creating "loopholes and anomalies", while one GP likened the current situation to a "free-for-all".

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Nostalgia blinds us to the fact that what looked healthy and sustainable was really a historical anomaly.

From this point of view, Syria’s revolution might be seen as the righting of a long historic anomaly.

Reports like those from NBC News and PBS about the human side of the shutdown are, unfortunately, largely anomalies.

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Opening post-pandemic, at a time of rising costs, dwindling audiences and little financial aid, New Theater Hollywood feels like an anomaly.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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