irregular
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These included changes in menstruation such as bleeding between periods, heavy bleeding, and irregular menstrual cycles.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 13, 2026
It’s typically less processed, with larger, irregular grains, and retains other minerals.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 9, 2026
Merz has vowed to return the CDU to its conservative roots and launched a crackdown on irregular immigration while trying to reboot a stagnant economy.
From Barron's ● Sep. 7, 2026
Patel called the Nature paper “an important study” because the participants were actively experiencing medical conditions that can affect sleep, such as insomnia, and said “we need more” research on how wearables affect irregular sleepers.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 6, 2026
Don’t use this word to refer to something unusual, uncommon, odd, unexpected, rare, exceptional, curious, irregular, offbeat, or surprising.
From "Woe Is I" by Patricia T. O'Conner
Mr. Sharaa has relied on Sunni tribal irregulars to lead the advance into SDF-held areas.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 21, 2026
According to Mr. Adkins, a company of South Vietnamese irregulars defected when the battle looked bleakest and began firing on their former comrades from inside the camp.
From Washington Post ● Apr. 19, 2020
On Sept. 12, 1919, 100 years to the day before his statue was unveiled, d’Annunzio led his company of black-clad rebel Italian soldiers and irregulars into the city of Fiume on the Adriatic coast.
From New York Times ● Nov. 16, 2019
A small percentage of galaxies with more disorganized shapes are classified as irregulars.
From Textbooks ● Oct. 13, 2016
When a small galaxy runs into a larger one face-on it can produce one of the loveliest of the rare irregulars, a ring galaxy thousands of light-years across, set against the velvet of intergalactic space.
From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan
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