abnormal
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During labour, midwives from North Middlesex University Hospital NHS Trust missed key warning signs, including abnormal foetal heart patterns and scar pain, which were not properly recognised or acted upon.
From BBC • Apr. 23, 2026
“The shipping industry needs to prepare for the possibility that Hormuz transits could remain abnormal, not just through the end of May, but for months beyond,” Greg Miller, a senior maritime reporter, wrote.
From Barron's • Apr. 23, 2026
And there was certainly nothing abnormal about the airport being crowded with throngs of people still in their pajamas ahead of a 7 a.m. flight.
From Salon • Apr. 20, 2026
The Masters will never be as famous as the British Open for rain-soaked afternoons, yet it’s abnormal for conditions to be this dry.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 11, 2026
Only a few years hence, MIT president Karl Compton, himself a physicist with a cyclotron at his command, would issue his lament about the introduction of “an abnormal competitive element” into academic science.
From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik
Vocabulary lists containing abnormal
Lesson 1
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