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anomaly

[uh-nom-uh-lee] / əˈnɒm ə li /


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Yet all these reasons are insufficient to fully explain the anomaly of the low-hire, low-fire economy, some analysts contend.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 29, 2026

A series featuring two of baseball’s smaller markets is an anomaly when history shows a correlation between payroll and success, not only in the regular season but in advancing through the playoffs.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 24, 2026

Well, I mean, there are a lot of intersections of opportunities for Elon Musk, and I also think he discovered, to use a phrase of his, the anomaly in the matrix for the American system.

From Salon ● Oct. 16, 2026

But Liniger, front and center as a co-founder and leader of one of the industry’s most dominant companies, would remain an anomaly for many more years.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 18, 2026

From a geographer’s point of view, it is a splendid anomaly, commencing with its extreme aridity.

From "1491" by Charles C. Mann

The team cited charts illustrating that temperature anomalies lead world food prices by about 12 months.

From MarketWatch ● Nov. 3, 2026

"We started to notice these warm-water anomalies on either side of marine heatwaves and realized that they're actually embedded within larger periods of warm water," explained lead author Ricardo Utzig Nardi M.S.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 30, 2026

Arguing that the concept is unscientific simply because journalists use it loosely and without precision ignores the standard statistical apparatus scientists rely on to quantify anomalies.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 8, 2026

Latest forecasts from the Met Office suggest that these temperature anomalies could exceed 3C later this year as El Niño nears its peak.

From BBC ● Aug. 21, 2026

Impetus theory was used to handle some anomalies, not to bring about a revolution; indeed, medieval natural philosophers were incapable of imagining a revolution that would supplant Aristotle.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton


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