anomalous
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Portfolio manager Matthew Tuttle says he was inspired to create the fund by videos that purport to show alien spacecraft moving across the skies in anomalous ways.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 22, 2026
This tiny deviation is known as the "anomalous magnetic moment," or g−2.
From Science Daily • May 19, 2026
Another file summarizes statements from seven federal government employees who separately reported "several unidentified anomalous phenomena" in the United States in 2023.
From Barron's • May 8, 2026
Ireland is an anomalous country in several different ways.
From Salon • Apr. 19, 2026
In 1953, after sinking a series of experimental bores, university geologists agreed that the site was indeed anomalous and attributed the deformed rocks to some ancient, unspecified volcanic action.
From "A Short History of Nearly Everything" by Bill Bryson
Vocabulary lists containing anomalous
Stories of Ourselves
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