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anomaly

[uh-nom-uh-lee] / əˈnɒm ə li /


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But a digital forensics expert told AFP's fact-checkers that the anomaly was the result of a failed text overlay by a news station that had syndicated the official feed.

From Barron's • Apr. 11, 2026

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

From Salon • Apr. 8, 2026

“The likelihood that the M767A1 fuze malfunctioned is a statistical anomaly that was outside any reasonable probability.”

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 16, 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

He had also set out to illustrate Archimedes’ principle in action, and as a consequence had discovered a further anomaly, that a weight of water could lift a weight greater than itself.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton




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