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regularity

[reg-yuh-lair-i-tee, reg-yoo-] / ˌrɛg jəˈlɛər ɪ ti, ˌrɛg ju- /


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Deep beneath the eastern Pacific Ocean, roughly 1,000 miles west of Ecuador, a seafloor fault has been producing magnitude 6 earthquakes with striking regularity for at least 30 years.

From Science Daily May 16, 2026

As the series progresses, however, people begin popping through portals with a “next stop” commuter-like regularity.

From Los Angeles Times May 12, 2026

Pandemics happen with regularity due to little things like the susceptibility of the human body to illness and international trade and travel.

From Salon May 11, 2026

Yet cogent objections to post-’60s permissiveness crop up with some regularity, if you’re looking for them.

From The Wall Street Journal Apr. 15, 2026

In the Middle Ages the heavens had been compared to clockwork; now the same principle of regularity was, it was claimed, to be discovered in the sublunary world.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton

The study’s authors also found regularities in the type of stocks in which predictable and unpredictable funds invest.

From Barron's Mar. 3, 2026

All those statistical regularities unable to fully replicate the human brain’s ability to connect and make meaning out of disparate ideas and experiences.

From Seattle Times Jul. 14, 2023

This is because language models are trained to generate text by identifying patterns and regularities in the data, and may sometimes produce responses that contain repetitive or unusual elements.

From Scientific American Dec. 28, 2022

Our ability to recognize and remember regularities in speech and text allows us to do things like complete a friend’s sentence or solve a Wordle in three tries.

From Slate Dec. 7, 2022

Both exhibit regularities, implying that they are not implacable forces but natural systems that can be understood and controlled.

From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan




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