irregularity
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Patterson's lawyers are now arguing the hotel mix-up amounted to a "fundamental irregularity" which "fatally undermined" the integrity of the verdicts.
From BBC ● Aug. 22, 2026
But according to Patterson's lawyers, a "fundamental irregularity" occurred which "fatally undermined" the integrity of the verdicts.
From BBC ● Aug. 17, 2026
Here, the very irregularity of the interior environment, including the concrete surfaces — richer and more textured than I expected — heightened my alertness.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 22, 2026
Nature herself is more than shapeless irregularity; the woods have glades and groves, animal trails and vistas; like literature, they have rising and falling action.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 17, 2026
So terrified was I that some irregularity would interfere with enlistment—some unforeseen objection—I perhaps answered with too great an exactitude, too punctilious a range of detail—desperate for approbation.
From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves" by M.T. Anderson
By late July, as Hearn’s defense counsel moved for release of the grand jury transcripts to expose glaring prosecutorial irregularities, Pirro’s case collapsed.
From Salon ● Aug. 4, 2026
But the local government separately ordered the project to cease operations, citing licensing irregularities.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 1, 2026
Dislocations are microscopic irregularities in a crystal where atoms are no longer aligned in a perfectly ordered pattern.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 31, 2026
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi's carefully built image of invincibility is facing its toughest test yet, analysts say, after his government backed down in the face of youth-led protests over exam irregularities and jobs prospects.
From Barron's ● Jul. 29, 2026
To create these images, cave artists used charcoal to outline irregularities in the walls of coves that suggested forms from nature.
From "The Annotated Mona Lisa" by Carol Strickland and John Boswell
