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Reporters looked for telltale signs of damage, such as irregular dark spots, across several bands of light, including infrared wavelengths invisible to the human eye.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 31, 2026
There may be other contributory factors to any outbursts — including fatigue, lack of sleep, hunger, thirst, pain, infection, medications, bodily functions and irregular routines, among other many variables.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 30, 2026
"My periods were so irregular but when I had them they were extremely painful, massively fatigued," she said.
From BBC ● Oct. 21, 2026
Local police chief I Kadek Dwi Yoga Sidhimantra described the object as "a fairly large aluminium plate measuring up to nine metres with an irregular shape and visible burn marks".
From Barron's ● Oct. 20, 2026
It seemed like a safe place, and safety was all the robot really wanted, so she stood there, motionless, all perfect lines and angles set against the irregular shapes of the wilderness.
From "The Wild Robot" by Peter Brown
Of the distinct combats that historians have identified, more than 90% were not primarily fought by formally organized regular troops but instead involved district militias and other irregulars, including Native American warriors.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 9, 2026
A small percentage of galaxies with more disorganized shapes are classified as irregulars.
From Textbooks ● Oct. 13, 2016
Then he materialized, followed by a raggle-taggle army, Muhammad Ali’s irregulars, your basic rainbow coalition of the late 1960s, falling in step behind him, chanting: “Muhammad Ali is our champ! Muhammad Ali is our champ!”
From New York Times ● Jun. 4, 2016
Smith called some of the guys irregulars because they were working full-time and could not commit themselves to building the houses full-time.
From Washington Times ● Mar. 14, 2015
Galactic collisions distort the shape of an originally spherical cluster and may also contribute to the genesis of spirals and irregulars from ellipticals.
From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan
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