anomalies

Example Sentences

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“Obsession” has turned into one of the biggest box-office anomalies in years.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 28, 2026

A 2016 study suggested that cold Atlantic anomalies were a "common precursor" to major heatwaves that had hit Europe since the 1980s.

From Barron's • Jun. 26, 2026

We’re going to take stuff down that is clearly fraud, we’re going to tag everything, and if there are any kind of streaming anomalies or other signals that it’s fraud, it’s coming down.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 16, 2026

"Big banks use this kind of approach to spot anomalies in accounts."

From BBC • May 21, 2026

Impetus theory was used to handle some anomalies, not to bring about a revolution; indeed, medieval natural philosophers were incapable of imagining a revolution that would supplant Aristotle.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton