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as in abnormality
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as in arbitrariness
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Recent Examples of irregularity
Experts say there are irregularities that could prove beneficial to the Massachusetts woman accused of killing cop boyfriend.
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Michael Loria, USA Today, 29 May 2025
Test takers seeking to practice law in California complained of a litany of technical glitches and irregularities.
—Jenny Jarvie, Los Angeles Times, 6 May 2025
Former Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency Director Chris Krebs testifies before a Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs hearing to examine claims of voter irregularities in the 2020 election, in the Dirksen Senate Office Building, in Washington, U.S., December 16, 2020.
—Ari Levy, CNBC, 16 Apr. 2025
This approach builds accountability, prevents access complacency and allows early detection of irregularities, all while preserving trust.
—Expert Panel®, Forbes.com, 27 May 2025
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Michael Loria, USA Today, 29 May 2025
Test takers seeking to practice law in California complained of a litany of technical glitches and irregularities.
—Jenny Jarvie, Los Angeles Times, 6 May 2025
Former Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency Director Chris Krebs testifies before a Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs hearing to examine claims of voter irregularities in the 2020 election, in the Dirksen Senate Office Building, in Washington, U.S., December 16, 2020.
—Ari Levy, CNBC, 16 Apr. 2025
This approach builds accountability, prevents access complacency and allows early detection of irregularities, all while preserving trust.
—Expert Panel®, Forbes.com, 27 May 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for irregularity
Noun
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At the end of the study period, there was a significant decrease in sperm count and an increase in sperm abnormalities in the dogs who wore the polyester pants.—
Sara Novak,
Discover Magazine,
7 June 2025
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The app detects arrhythmias and irregular heartbeats, early signs of heart failure, indicators of coronary artery disease and heart valve abnormalities.—
Ramsha Waseem,
Smithsonian Magazine,
30 May 2025
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In addition to being a crucial group, the measure also avoids some of the demographic distortions associated with other methods.—
Bill Stone,
Forbes.com,
8 June 2025
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Built on manic, strobing guitars and undulating waves of distortion, the music feels both cutting and brutalizing.—
Kory Grow,
Rolling Stone,
6 June 2025
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Overcoming injuries, Jurickson Profar’s 80-game suspension and bullpen volatility has proved too difficult.—
Tom Krasovic,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
6 June 2025
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While the household survey tends to have more volatility, May’s readings from that particular wing of the report rang more alarm bells than usual.—
Alicia Wallace,
CNN Money,
6 June 2025
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The toxins from the fungus cause liver damage, vomiting and reproductive defects in both livestock and humans.—
Filip Timotija,
The Hill,
4 June 2025
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These types of batteries, although generally safe, can be highly combustible under specific circumstances, like extreme overheating or manufacturing defects.—
Will McCurdy,
PC Magazine,
31 May 2025
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For comparison, Earth's orbit has an eccentricity of 0.0167 and is therefore close to circular; at the other extreme, an orbital eccentricity of 1 would be parabolic.—
Keith Cooper,
Space.com,
6 June 2025
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Class struggle is reflected in the way that the back-alley heavy, Atticus Hawk, dismisses the ivory-tower eccentricity of the occult specialist Scholar Vitali.—
The New York Times,
New York Times,
30 May 2025
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After a long, eight-year battle, in which the hospital claimed that Maura had a genetic underlying vascular malformation in the brain, jurors sided with the Gallaghers, concluding that Maura's death was preventable.—
Gillian Telling,
People.com,
9 May 2025
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NTDs result in malformations of the spine and brain.—
Jennifer Lefton, MS, RD/N, CNSC, FAND,
Verywell Health,
7 Apr. 2025
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However, the council continued to deny any connection between the waste removal and the limb deformities, according to The Guardian.—
Monica Mercuri,
Forbes,
3 Mar. 2025
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The article had uncovered four instances of limb deformities, and 19 families ended up signing onto the class action suit.—
Olivia B. Waxman,
TIME,
27 Feb. 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 17 Jun. 2025.
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