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as in abnormality
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as in arbitrariness
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Recent Examples of irregularity
But financial irregularities — which appear to be a factor in both companies’ struggles, as the Justice Department reportedly investigates Tricolor and Deloitte does triage on First Brands’ accounting — tend to be a bad sign for the economy.
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Liz Hoffman, semafor.com, 23 Sep. 2025
The AlphaEarth Foundations team told IEEE Spectrum that one limitation in Earth observation is the inherent irregularity and sparsity of the data.
—Shannon Cuthrell, IEEE Spectrum, 15 Sep. 2025
These external checks detect irregularities early and signal to staff and stakeholders that accountability matters.
—Expert Panel®, Forbes.com, 25 Aug. 2025
Court documents show the State Department audited GardaWorld’s pre-deployment training records in 2019 and found improper paperwork, unauthorized instructors and other irregularities.
—Miami Herald, 22 Aug. 2025
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Liz Hoffman, semafor.com, 23 Sep. 2025
The AlphaEarth Foundations team told IEEE Spectrum that one limitation in Earth observation is the inherent irregularity and sparsity of the data.
—Shannon Cuthrell, IEEE Spectrum, 15 Sep. 2025
These external checks detect irregularities early and signal to staff and stakeholders that accountability matters.
—Expert Panel®, Forbes.com, 25 Aug. 2025
Court documents show the State Department audited GardaWorld’s pre-deployment training records in 2019 and found improper paperwork, unauthorized instructors and other irregularities.
—Miami Herald, 22 Aug. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for irregularity
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If the aneurysm is found in a healthy patient and doesn’t show any high-risk features, doctors will monitor it and check for signs of growth or other abnormalities over time.—
Kaan Ozcan,
NBC news,
23 Oct. 2025
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Before the stethoscope, physicians often placed their ear directly on a patient’s chest to listen for abnormalities in breathing and heart sounds.—
Joshua Hutcheson,
The Conversation,
16 Oct. 2025
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The sense of arbitrariness that had previously bewildered and frustrated me was drowned out by excitement and sheer aesthetic pleasure.—
Richard Brody,
New Yorker,
7 Oct. 2025
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Personal remembrance becomes interwoven with political fiction, historical fact, and mythological distortion in the flood of stories that customarily follows a war.—
Elizabeth D. Samet,
Foreign Affairs,
29 Oct. 2025
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The last quarter of the eighteenth century was a pre-democratic era, and all efforts to read a Jacksonian or Tocquevillian faith in the wisdom of the common man into the American founding are misleading distortions.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
28 Oct. 2025
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The dispute highlights the deep mistrust and volatility defining relations between the two governments, with both sides reinforcing military deployments and intensifying rhetoric, raising fears of direct confrontation.—
Amir Daftari,
MSNBC Newsweek,
24 Oct. 2025
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Fund managers are taking a cautious stance as the fourth quarter gets underway, opting to go underweight in risk assets in favor of defensive plays with lower volatility.—
Tasmin Lockwood,
CNBC,
24 Oct. 2025
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The inspection program would find and repair defects mitigated before reaching a critical state.—
Teri Sforza,
Oc Register,
23 Oct. 2025
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Other higher-risk groups include those with congenital heart defects or disorders, structural heart problems, or a history of coronary artery disease or heart failure.—
Melissa Rudy,
FOXNews.com,
20 Oct. 2025
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The same goes for Lanthimos’ ability to draw performances out of actors that suggest a freedom to indulge in eccentricity, the stranger the better.—
David Fear,
Rolling Stone,
23 Oct. 2025
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Rhoden and her colleagues studied how the eccentricity could have changed to recreate what is seen at Mimas today.—
Nola Taylor Tillman,
Space.com,
10 Oct. 2025
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One rare disease of particular interest for my lab is cerebral cavernous malformation, or CCM.—
Richard J. Price,
The Conversation,
15 Oct. 2025
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These are congenital malformations, essentially tiny tracts or pits near the ear that occur in about 0.1 to 0.9 percent of births in Europe and the United States, but can be more common in parts of Africa and Asia.—
Daniella Gray,
MSNBC Newsweek,
2 Oct. 2025
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For chasers like Olbinski, the monsoon’s fickleness is both a frustration and a thrill.—
Hayleigh Evans,
AZCentral.com,
28 Aug. 2025
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“Irregularity.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/irregularity. Accessed 30 Oct. 2025.
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