anomaly
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He introduced bills for a clearer medical exception and protection for doctors who intervened in cases where a fatal fetal anomaly risked the mother’s health.
From Salon • Jun. 8, 2026
This anomaly has puzzled cosmologists for two decades.
From Science Daily • May 22, 2026
And that alignment exists because of an anomaly in business history: there was no financial incentive for Bogle to create the company in the first place!
From The Wall Street Journal • May 15, 2026
Joanna Bickersteth, postmistress at Marshgate Post Office, near Boscastle, said Yates's case was not an anomaly, with many customers "frustrated" by the loss of service.
From BBC • May 14, 2026
For the Aristotelian philosophy of nature could not be adapted to incorporate this peculiar anomaly; if there could be such a thing as a new star, then the whole system was founded on false premises.
From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton
Vocabulary lists containing anomaly
Essential Academic Vocabulary for High School Students, List 1
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