anomaly
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The plans had received an objection from Ilkley Town Council, who recommended it be refused as it would be a "visual anomaly to the moorland".
From BBC ● Oct. 18, 2026
The benchmark for the definition is the sea-surface temperature anomaly in part of the Pacific Ocean, which is now at record levels.
From Barron's ● Oct. 13, 2026
Even so, their results indicate that the carbon isotope anomaly preserved at Zaonega was driven mainly by events within the local sedimentary basin rather than by a global disturbance.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 26, 2026
So she just is an anomaly, and there’s no more questions around it.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 14, 2026
They had neither refuted nor confirmed Galileo’s claim; they had simply produced an anomaly.
From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton
Temperatures above 30C have also been recorded for the first time in parts of the tropical Pacific, while record sea-surface temperature anomalies and exceptional subsurface warmth have been observed.
From BBC ● Oct. 13, 2026
Yet defensive AI can spot anomalies, trick and defeat AI hackers, and report threats at speeds humans cannot match.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 22, 2026
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
This means the satellite sensor and an algorithm identified a pixel containing thermal anomalies associated with fire.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 6, 2026
Similarly, Wilhelm Friedrich Bessel predicted the existence of Neptune on the basis of anomalies in the orbit of Uranus.
From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton
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