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regularity

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


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In that case, Judge Paula Xinis, a President Barack Obama appointee, criticized the government, saying, “You have taken the presumption of regularity, and you’ve destroyed it.”

From Salon Jul. 30, 2026

Far from abusing the courts with frivolous appeals, the exonerees we interviewed described being thwarted at every attempt due to appellate and postconviction processes that prioritize procedural regularity over the substance of their innocence claims.

From Slate May 29, 2026

The Lakers should use James’ $52.6-million salary to sign long, athletic players who can drain threes with regularity.

From Los Angeles Times May 16, 2026

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

There was a musical regularity to the rhythm.

From "Fablehaven" by Brandon Mull

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

Large language models are, like people, great at learning regularities in language, and they use this trick to generate human-like text.

From Slate Dec. 7, 2022

Broadly speaking, there are two schools: one holds that laws of nature are simply regularities which we identify in nature; the other that they are necessary features of the world.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton




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