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as in abnormality
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as in arbitrariness
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Recent Examples of irregularity
Other technologies monitor the power lines themselves for irregularities in order to allow for immediate response.
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Kristan Hawkins, Newsweek, 6 Feb. 2025
Together, these ingredients create a polished look by diffusing light and masking skin irregularities.
—Daisy Maldonado, Allure, 6 Feb. 2025
The police officer is out on bail while the former head of the hospital remains in detention in connection with a separate case of financial irregularities at the hospital.
—Reuters, CNN, 18 Jan. 2025
The fact that there has never been any credible report of fraud or irregularities works to boost citizens’ confidence in the elections.
—Omar G. Encarnación, Foreign Affairs, 16 Jan. 2025
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Kristan Hawkins, Newsweek, 6 Feb. 2025
Together, these ingredients create a polished look by diffusing light and masking skin irregularities.
—Daisy Maldonado, Allure, 6 Feb. 2025
The police officer is out on bail while the former head of the hospital remains in detention in connection with a separate case of financial irregularities at the hospital.
—Reuters, CNN, 18 Jan. 2025
The fact that there has never been any credible report of fraud or irregularities works to boost citizens’ confidence in the elections.
—Omar G. Encarnación, Foreign Affairs, 16 Jan. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for irregularity
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While repeating faces could just be poor design, missing fingers, limbs, or other abnormalities are typical hallmarks of Gen-AI models.—
Brian Welk,
IndieWire,
4 Feb. 2025
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One agency that deserves to feel the horns of the bull-in-the-china-shop-in-chief is the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB), an ugly mess of structural abnormalities and constitutional affronts.—
David B. McGarry,
National Review,
28 Jan. 2025
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The suit cites the recent Supreme Court decision banning affirmative action and highlights civil rights cases in its argument, a new tactic many scholars have called a gross distortion of the 1964 Civil Rights Act.—
Bernhard Warner,
New York Times,
15 Feb. 2025
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However, activists concerned with animal rights, the environment, the rights of farmers, and human health are already working to ease the distortions of the subsidy system and align government subsidies with recommendations as to what constitutes a healthy, sustainable diet.—
Josh Hammer,
Newsweek,
14 Feb. 2025
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Some companies are more adept at hedging away risks of currency volatility than others, but even big hedging programs often won’t account for everything.—
Jesse Pound,
CNBC,
14 Feb. 2025
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Due to these factors, there is a need to prepare for the potential volatility of federal government funding, county officials said.—
Ryan Macasero,
The Mercury News,
14 Feb. 2025
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The children all had a variety of birth defects, including missing or underdeveloped fingers, clubbed feet, heart defects, eye problems and skin conditions, per The Times.—
Lynsey Eidell,
People.com,
28 Feb. 2025
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Today, a fetus diagnosed with a complex heart defect can receive care that grants them a future once thought impossible.—
Jack Rychik and Craig Fleishman,
Orlando Sentinel,
25 Feb. 2025
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Through flood, earthquake, and subsidence, the Goose was coddled like a pedigree bird at a cost of US$1 million a year until Hughes died in 1976 after years of decline into Las Vegas penthouse seclusion and bizarre eccentricity.—
David Szondy,
New Atlas,
25 Dec. 2024
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The Parker's dedication to eccentricity runs deep, even down to the bathroom amenities.—
Catherine Garcia,
theweek,
20 Dec. 2024
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Endocrine disruptors interfere with the human reproductive system, leading to genital and reproductive malformations as well as female infertility and a decline in sperm count, according to the Endocrine Society.—
Sandee LaMotte,
CNN,
3 Feb. 2025
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Richard Lapointe, who died at age 74 in 2020, had Dandy-Walker syndrome, a rare congenital brain malformation that his lawyers say was a factor in his false confession.—
Landon Mion,
Fox News,
26 Jan. 2025
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Even less savory is the dwelling on body horror, with characters sporting sometimes inexplicable skin conditions or other deformities.—
Dennis Harvey,
Variety,
15 Jan. 2025
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The only thing to be improved about Better Man is the title (not to be confused with A Different Man, the repugnant indie film about deformity).—
Armond White,
National Review,
10 Jan. 2025
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Years of naval inconstancy with repair work drove Vigor Industrial—a once vibrant and growing maritime conglomerate—into the welcoming arms of hedge funds, which wasted no time in striping the company of value.—
Craig Hooper,
Forbes,
20 Feb. 2024
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In the nineteen-nineties and two-thousands, as the center-left was evolving, the label was most effectively applied to those telegenic figures—Bill and Hillary Clinton, Tony Blair, John Edwards—who were suspected of ideological inconstancy and of substituting polls for principles.—
Benjamin Wallace-Wells,
The New Yorker,
29 Sep. 2022
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“Irregularity.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/irregularity. Accessed 3 Mar. 2025.
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