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as in abnormality
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as in arbitrariness
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Recent Examples of irregularity
Ground stops are a fairly common tool for the Federal Aviation Administration to address operational irregularities.
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Zach Wichter, USA TODAY, 24 Dec. 2024
Before switching allegiance a final time, Zendejas played for first the U.S. and then Mexico at youth level, where paperwork irregularities caused by his failure to file a one-time switch led to the Mexican federation being hit with FIFA fines and forced to forfeit five games.
—The Athletic, 16 Dec. 2024
The opposition has repeatedly decried the July election as fraudulent, pointing to widespread reports of electoral irregularities and government repression.
—Paul Du Quenoy, Newsweek, 10 Jan. 2025
Deepfake detection tools use AI to spot subtle inconsistencies in manipulated media, like irregularities in facial movements or pixel artifacts that may escape human detection.
—Rick Hutchinson, Forbes, 6 Jan. 2025
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Zach Wichter, USA TODAY, 24 Dec. 2024
Before switching allegiance a final time, Zendejas played for first the U.S. and then Mexico at youth level, where paperwork irregularities caused by his failure to file a one-time switch led to the Mexican federation being hit with FIFA fines and forced to forfeit five games.
—The Athletic, 16 Dec. 2024
The opposition has repeatedly decried the July election as fraudulent, pointing to widespread reports of electoral irregularities and government repression.
—Paul Du Quenoy, Newsweek, 10 Jan. 2025
Deepfake detection tools use AI to spot subtle inconsistencies in manipulated media, like irregularities in facial movements or pixel artifacts that may escape human detection.
—Rick Hutchinson, Forbes, 6 Jan. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for irregularity
Noun
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Chief Executive Steven Powell reiterated in an interview with The Times the company’s assertion that its data showed no abnormalities in the 12 hours leading up to the ignition of the Eaton fire.—
Noah Goldberg,
Los Angeles Times,
16 Jan. 2025
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There were no abnormalities reported at the Ikata Nuclear Power Plant in western Japan or the Sendai Nuclear Power Plant in Kagoshima prefecture, NHK said, referring to the two plants nearest to where the quake occurred.—
Rhea Rose Abraham,
USA TODAY,
14 Jan. 2025
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Teaching how and why the Holocaust happened can make the Holocaust relevant and provoke critical thinking, something sorely needed in a world awash in online denial, distortion, and antisemitism.—
Greg Schneider and Ambassador Stuart E. Eizenstat,
Newsweek,
27 Jan. 2025
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Those estimates may also be valuable in multi-party trade negotiations focused on Chinese distortions, which pose particularly serious challenges for U.S. trade and the world economy.—
Alden Abbott,
Forbes,
21 Jan. 2025
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Carter’s volatility is why Sirianni doesn’t draw up boundaries for a talent-laden roster that can sometimes transcend the coaching staff’s schemes.—
Brooks Kubena,
The Athletic,
24 Jan. 2025
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Those numbers were not adjusted for seasonal volatility.—
George Avalos,
The Mercury News,
24 Jan. 2025
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In early 2020, Fitbit made an update to address the defect, but continued to hear from people suffering burns and did not report the issue to regulators as legally required.—
Kate Gibson,
CBS News,
23 Jan. 2025
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Try to only buy the pieces with no visible defects.—
Betsy Cribb Watson,
Southern Living,
16 Jan. 2025
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Earth's orbital eccentricity is 0.017; Mars' is 0.055, and Mercury's is 0.206.—
Keith Cooper,
Space.com,
28 Jan. 2025
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Indeed, for all his film’s eccentricities — Blue Velvet’s freaky Frank Booth huffing, well, whatever that stuff is, Lost Highway’s spine-chilling Mystery Man, or Wild at Heart’s Sailor kung fu-kicking in a snakeskin jacket — Lynch wasn’t trying to be controversial.—
Damon Wise,
Deadline,
17 Jan. 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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His arteriovenous malformation, that tangle of blood vessels in his brain, had begun to bleed.—
Jon Hamilton,
NPR,
14 Jan. 2025
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The film starred John Hurt as Joseph (John) Merrick, an English man with severe physical deformities who was largely shunned by society, and Anthony Hopkins as Frederick Treves, a doctor who befriended Merrick.—
Wesley Stenzel,
EW.com,
16 Jan. 2025
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One fan was producer Stuart Cornfeld, who worked with Mel Brooks, and eventually tapped Lynch to direct The Elephant Man, a drama based on the life of Joseph Herrick, an English artist with severe physical deformities.—
Jon Blistein,
Rolling Stone,
16 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 1 Feb. 2025.
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