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Alexander Fleming’s discovery of penicillin began with what laboratory anomaly?

anomaly

[uh-nom-uh-lee] / əˈnɒm ə li /


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The main consumers buying Kevin’s meals are millennial men, making the brand an anomaly among packaged foods.

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 17, 2026

Temperature anomaly charts from different ends of the week as the cooler air moves in.

From BBC Sep. 15, 2026

That phase is starting to look like a historical anomaly.

From MarketWatch Sep. 15, 2026

So she just is an anomaly, and there’s no more questions around it.

From Los Angeles Times Sep. 14, 2026

It still catches me off guard that this isn’t some random anomaly of a weekend.

From "Leah on the Offbeat" by Becky Albertalli

But there are always anomalies in even would-be wave years, and voters might think the Senate candidate is his brother is the stuff from which anomalies are made.

From Slate Sep. 19, 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

All these anomalies could become more and more regular -- California has seen marine heat waves every year since 2019.

From Barron's Jul. 27, 2026

Rai emulating Jim Barnes in 1919 proves Fleetwood correct, these longstanding records and anomalies can be broken.

From BBC Jul. 14, 2026

At the next-heaviest atom, helium, the model began to break down, creating the anomalies that drew from Max Born his expression of despair.

From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik




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