anomalous
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It’s true that commodities on the whole did poorly from 2023 to 2024, but Emanuel calls that anomalous period a temporary “dip” that is now reversing.
From Barron's • Jan. 30, 2026
But a lesson is also the difficulty of concealing such cheating given the ease of detecting anomalous betting patterns.
From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 5, 2025
“It’s completely unprecedented, completely anomalous — representative, I think, of a major transformation of our normal political life,” said Jack Rakove, a Stanford University emeritus professor of history and political science.
From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 31, 2025
“This means that January 2025 stands out as anomalous even by the standards of the last two years,” Hausfather explains.
From Salon • Feb. 6, 2025
Tycho had commended Mars to Kepler because its apparent motion seemed most anomalous, most difficult to reconcile with an orbit made of circles.
From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan
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