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as in abnormality
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as in arbitrariness
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Recent Examples of irregularity
While a Bucharest court ruled that the first criminal case could not proceed due to legal and procedural irregularities, the charges against the Tates remain in effect.
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David Catanese, Miami Herald, 27 Feb. 2025
And in a 5-4 decision that split the court’s conservative majority, the justices ruled that a group of 20 Alabama residents who are suing over delays and irregularities in processing their unemployment benefits can proceed with their lawsuit.
—Zach Schonfeld, The Hill, 21 Feb. 2025
Read Next Crime & Courts CMPD crime lab analyst under investigation over ‘irregularities’ in tests, DA says
March 27, 2024 1:01 PM
The SBI turned over its findings last week, and Merriweather must now review the case file and decide whether or not to press charges.
—Julia Coin, Charlotte Observer, 12 Mar. 2025
On this occasion, however, Russia’s election observers documented the irregularities, and political opposition leaders mobilized the biggest nationwide demonstration since the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991.
—Michael McFaul, The Atlantic, 10 Mar. 2025
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David Catanese, Miami Herald, 27 Feb. 2025
And in a 5-4 decision that split the court’s conservative majority, the justices ruled that a group of 20 Alabama residents who are suing over delays and irregularities in processing their unemployment benefits can proceed with their lawsuit.
—Zach Schonfeld, The Hill, 21 Feb. 2025
Read Next Crime & Courts CMPD crime lab analyst under investigation over ‘irregularities’ in tests, DA says
March 27, 2024 1:01 PM
The SBI turned over its findings last week, and Merriweather must now review the case file and decide whether or not to press charges.
—Julia Coin, Charlotte Observer, 12 Mar. 2025
On this occasion, however, Russia’s election observers documented the irregularities, and political opposition leaders mobilized the biggest nationwide demonstration since the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991.
—Michael McFaul, The Atlantic, 10 Mar. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for irregularity
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Studies suggest that mosaicism is common in embryos, and that even those with multiple chromosomal abnormalities can result in healthy, full-term pregnancies—albeit less often than euploid embryos.—
Jamie Ducharme,
TIME,
6 Mar. 2025
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It is caused by an abnormality in a gene called PLA2G6.—
Taylor Grothe,
Parents,
28 Feb. 2025
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The Federal Communications Commission's news distortion investigation into CBS drew a public rebuke from a bipartisan group of five former FCC commissioners, including two former chairmen.—
ArsTechnica,
ArsTechnica,
28 Mar. 2025
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Attention also could be paid to dismantling foreign anticompetitive market distortions, in order to augment the benefits achieved through the Task Force.—
Alden Abbott,
Forbes.com,
28 Mar. 2025
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But, the stability rule that requires current spending to be balanced has seemingly led to more volatility in fiscal policy.—
London Business School,
Forbes.com,
26 Mar. 2025
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As the world enters another year of potential volatility in energy and geopolitical uncertainty, Birol said, the IEA offers an important source of objective data.—
Daniel R. Depetris,
Newsweek,
25 Mar. 2025
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Teslas have infamously run right into the broadsides of trucks on Autopilot, but it’s been regularly ruled that is not any sort of defect in Autopilot, which is not designed to be or expected to be perfect at that task.—
Brad Templeton,
Forbes,
20 Mar. 2025
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About 1 percent of vehicles being recalled are affected by the defect, according to a notice issued Tuesday by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration.—
Thomas G. Moukawsher,
Newsweek,
20 Mar. 2025
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For all of Bournemouth’s eccentricity, there is no unique identity that jumps off the page.—
Brett Koremenos,
New York Times,
28 Mar. 2025
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However, the large eccentricity means its orbit ranges from as far as 2 astronomical units (300 million km/186 million miles — i.e. twice the Earth–sun distance) from its star to as close as 0.75 AU (112 million km/69.7 million miles).—
Keith Cooper,
Space.com,
28 Jan. 2025
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For young patients, doctors often consider more common issues like vision problems or posture, missing underlying conditions like Chiari malformation.—
David Faris,
Newsweek,
18 Jan. 2025
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Kearney suffered a cerebral arteriovenous malformation on Jan. 8.—
Mike Barnes,
The Hollywood Reporter,
14 Mar. 2025
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Excessive systemic exposure to fluorides can also lead to skeletal fluorosis, which causes pain, stiffness and bone deformities, or dental/enamel fluorosis, which causes tooth discoloration.—
Alyssa Goldberg,
USA TODAY,
19 Mar. 2025
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Excessive levels can lead to issues such as tooth discoloration, bone deformities and thyroid problems.—
Matt Robison,
Newsweek,
21 Nov. 2024
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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 2 Apr. 2025.
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