anomalous
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This tiny deviation is known as the "anomalous magnetic moment," or g−2.
From Science Daily • May 19, 2026
France’s national weather service is investigating anomalous temperature spikes at Paris Charles de Gaulle Airport, leading to lucrative Polymarket payoffs.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 23, 2026
Ireland is an anomalous country in several different ways.
From Salon • Apr. 19, 2026
Properties in southern and southeastern states will also have bigger losses because “the low temperatures there were more anomalous and properties are generally less prepared for these low temperatures.”
From Barron's • Feb. 4, 2026
So the critical questions are: “What disturbs us? What is dissonant? What seems anomalous? What is contrary to expectation?”
From "The New Jim Crow" by Michelle Alexander
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