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anomaly

[uh-nom-uh-lee] / əˈnɒm ə li /


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But the contrast is so stark it has created an anomaly.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 9, 2026

His words were an anomaly in the history of presidential rhetoric.

From Salon • Apr. 8, 2026

Still, the current time period is a relative anomaly.

From Barron's • Apr. 1, 2026

A new study shows that extremely slow shifts of rock deep inside the planet helped produce the gravity anomaly beneath Antarctica.

From Science Daily • Mar. 7, 2026

For the Aristotelian philosophy of nature could not be adapted to incorporate this peculiar anomaly; if there could be such a thing as a new star, then the whole system was founded on false premises.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton




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