irregularity
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A "fundamental irregularity" also took place while the jury was sequestered that "fatally undermined the integrity of the verdicts", he argued, without giving further details.
From Barron's ● Aug. 17, 2026
Tam said Odora’s spadix was a developmental irregularity, but emphasized the plant remains healthy.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 14, 2026
Still, in our endless chase of machined refinement, I think we’re missing the value of human irregularity.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 26, 2026
The irregularity of student finance payments made it difficult to budget, which Denby said often caused her to rely on an overdraft alongside income from a part-time job.
From BBC ● Mar. 25, 2026
I am hungry, but something makes me nervous with these stroopwafels, and with how eager Mrs. Janssen is to have me sit, and with the irregularity of the whole situation.
From "Girl in the Blue Coat" by Monica Hesse
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The chief minister told reporters that "many shocking facts are emerging" as part of the CID's investigation into the exam irregularities but did not give more details, saying that "the matter is under investigation".
From BBC ● Aug. 18, 2026
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
Dislocations are microscopic irregularities in a crystal where atoms are no longer aligned in a perfectly ordered pattern.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 31, 2026
India's Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan resigned on Saturday after mass youth-led protests demanded his ouster in anger over a string of irregularities in potentially life-changing exams.
From Barron's ● Jul. 25, 2026
Flaws and irregularities told how the trees endured fires and lightning strikes and windstorms and infestations and yet continued to grow.
From "The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics" by Daniel James Brown
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