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as in unusual
being out of the ordinary
that was an anomalous year for the housing industry, so the number of starts is anything but typical
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as in abnormal
departing from some accepted standard of what is normal
an anomalous burst of anger from this usually easygoing person
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Recent Examples of anomalous
Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer (N.Y.) says President Trump should declassify secret government archives about unidentified flying objects (UFOs), also known as unidentified anomalous phenomena (UAPs), in the spirit of greater government transparency.
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Alexander Bolton, The Hill, 23 Jan. 2025
The wealth division's near-miss was reported to regulators and the company has since set up a tool to help vet large, anomalous payments and transfers, according to the report.
—Bhanvi Satija, USA TODAY, 4 Mar. 2025
Other Extended Features In addition to monitoring your credit card and bank accounts for anomalous transactions, Bitdefender alerts you to possible fraudulent transactions in your investment accounts.
—PCMAG, 22 Jan. 2025
The plan was already beginning to emerge on a sheet of Mylar graph paper—an oval, surrounded by arrows, with a handful of anomalous objects marked.
—Julian Lucas, The New Yorker, 24 Feb. 2025
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Alexander Bolton, The Hill, 23 Jan. 2025
The wealth division's near-miss was reported to regulators and the company has since set up a tool to help vet large, anomalous payments and transfers, according to the report.
—Bhanvi Satija, USA TODAY, 4 Mar. 2025
Other Extended Features In addition to monitoring your credit card and bank accounts for anomalous transactions, Bitdefender alerts you to possible fraudulent transactions in your investment accounts.
—PCMAG, 22 Jan. 2025
The plan was already beginning to emerge on a sheet of Mylar graph paper—an oval, surrounded by arrows, with a handful of anomalous objects marked.
—Julian Lucas, The New Yorker, 24 Feb. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for anomalous
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Separately, just days before the start date, Read made the unusual move of adding an alternate juror from her first trial to her legal team, according to media reports citing court records.—
Rachel Treisman,
NPR,
28 Mar. 2025
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Read More | McClatchy News continues to follow the discovery of the most unusual and intriguing new species.—
Stories by Real-Time news team, with AI summarization,
Miami Herald,
28 Mar. 2025
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Symptoms of the condition can include shortness of breath, a sudden drop in blood pressure, an abnormal heart rate, and bleeding from the uterus, C-section, or IV sites.—
Korin Miller,
SELF,
8 Apr. 2025
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Tau tangles are also implicated in other neurological diseases such as frontal lobe dementia, or FTD, and Lewy body dementia in which abnormal clumps of a protein called alpha-synuclein accumulate in the brain’s neurons.—
Sandee LaMotte,
CNN Money,
7 Apr. 2025
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Harvard University President Alan Garber released an open letter today that provided an exceptional example of leadership integrity when faced with extraordinary external pressure.—
Dan Pontefract,
Forbes.com,
15 Apr. 2025
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America’s trading partners have scrambled to respond to the extraordinary array of tariffs Mr. Trump has announced, including a 10 percent tax on virtually all U.S. imports.—
Joe Rennison,
New York Times,
14 Apr. 2025
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In an alternative '90s, dark waters from the underground scientific facility have risen to flood the town and deliver a menagerie of natural and unnatural nightmares.—
Jeff Spry,
Space.com,
11 Apr. 2025
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In this type of thinking, the desire to be alone is seen as unnatural and unhealthy, something to be pitied or feared rather than valued or encouraged.—
Virginia Thomas,
The Conversation,
4 Apr. 2025
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This compact security camera offers exceptional value and robust features in a tiny design.—
Shubham Yewale,
PC Magazine,
14 Apr. 2025
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Meanwhile, the exceptional cinematic short from Love, Death and Robots’ Alberto Mielgo has a 49K to 2.3K ratio.—
Paul Tassi,
Forbes.com,
13 Apr. 2025
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These lanterns are bright, and their unique design makes the solar hanging light the perfect outdoor decoration.—
Nora Colomer,
FOXNews.com,
10 Apr. 2025
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The underlying signal itself can also be unique for people or groups of people.—
Eloy Geenjaar,
The Conversation,
10 Apr. 2025
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The exemptions were a rare piece of good news for the battered financial markets, and U.S. stocks closed higher Monday.—
John Bacon,
USA Today,
15 Apr. 2025
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By 1815, machine breaking had become rare, but the plight of the artisans remained dire.—
John Cassidy,
New Yorker,
14 Apr. 2025
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His best by far came off an odd-man rush where Suzuki shot to create a rebound for Cole Caufield.—
Omar White,
New York Times,
13 Apr. 2025
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Domi also had three odd-man rushes in the third with his speed, but not much was generated from them.—
Omar White,
New York Times,
13 Apr. 2025
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“Anomalous.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/anomalous. Accessed 22 Apr. 2025.
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