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as in abnormality
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as in arbitrariness
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Recent Examples of irregularity
What to Know Two election integrity groups have suggested that analysis of voting behavior in 2024 swing states could indicate irregularities.
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John Yoo and John Shu, Newsweek, 24 Jan. 2025
Other possible signs of hypothyroidism include: extreme fatigue, constipation, dry skin, cold sensitivity, menstrual irregularities, inability to focus and muscle aches, says Jaggi.
—Caroline C. Boyle, USA TODAY, 17 Jan. 2025
Behavioral analysis, for instance, monitors subtle patterns in user interactions—such as mouse movements, typing cadence or navigation paths—to detect irregularities.
—Benjamin Fabre, Forbes, 3 Mar. 2025
Several original buyers complained to the city of Miami building department and Mayor Francis Suarez about Cox and construction irregularities, but the city took no action to help them.
—Linda Robertson, Miami Herald, 2 Mar. 2025
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John Yoo and John Shu, Newsweek, 24 Jan. 2025
Other possible signs of hypothyroidism include: extreme fatigue, constipation, dry skin, cold sensitivity, menstrual irregularities, inability to focus and muscle aches, says Jaggi.
—Caroline C. Boyle, USA TODAY, 17 Jan. 2025
Behavioral analysis, for instance, monitors subtle patterns in user interactions—such as mouse movements, typing cadence or navigation paths—to detect irregularities.
—Benjamin Fabre, Forbes, 3 Mar. 2025
Several original buyers complained to the city of Miami building department and Mayor Francis Suarez about Cox and construction irregularities, but the city took no action to help them.
—Linda Robertson, Miami Herald, 2 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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An Invisible Risk The standard literature defines cognitive bias as a systematic distortion that affects decision making processes and cognitive understanding, often resulting from limited data sets and unconscious biases and decision protocols favoring certain viewpoints.—
Cristian Randieri,
Forbes,
14 Mar. 2025
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They are modified with effects like chorus and distortion, which are all modeled, too.—
Nate Anderson,
Ars Technica,
10 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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Tesla is recalling substantially all units of the Cybertruck pickup over a defect that could cause a panel to fly off in traffic.—
Nathan Bomey,
Axios,
20 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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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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Brain Dead Studios What’s spring without a little eccentricity and who’s more eccentric a filmmaker than Wes Anderson?—
Harrison Richlin,
IndieWire,
4 Mar. 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 31 Mar. 2025.
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