How to Use irregularity in a Sentence
irregularity
noun- He is suffering from irregularity.
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There were all sorts of concerns about fraud and irregularity and all those things.
—CBS News, 13 Oct. 2024
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Cut the parts to size, fasten them, and belt-sand any irregularities.
—Roy Berendson, Popular Mechanics, 21 Mar. 2018
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Some airlines also have built in back-up plans in case of irregularities.
—Rachel Chang, Condé Nast Traveler, 10 Jan. 2024
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Project Rousseau’s lawyers said any irregularities could count against them.
—Olivia Bensimon Todd Heisler, New York Times, 28 Sep. 2023
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By using hot air, the two layers bond, birthing slight irregularities on the knit surface in the process.
—Martino Carrera, Footwear News, 16 Jan. 2026
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To go back to our soap layer, imagine a wave of light being split into two by an irregularity in the soap film.
—Chris Lee, Ars Technica, 18 Apr. 2022
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Now there were irregularities in that election -- they were reviewed by the courts around the country.
—ABC News, 19 Mar. 2023
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She was then referred for a test that would be able to detect any irregularities in her cervical cells.
—Nadeen Ebrahim, CNN, 25 Aug. 2023
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Mapping of the area beneath the pyramid turned up an irregularity that looked to be a tunnel.
—Franz Lidz Meghan Dhaliwal, New York Times, 23 Dec. 2023
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The panel has denied that there were widespread irregularities in the vote.
—Margaret Coker, New York Times, 7 June 2018
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There were a lot of discrepancies and irregularities in the archival footage.
—Jeremy Fuchs, SI.com, 6 July 2018
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The irregularity of Earth’s spin led scientists to study a new way to measure time.
—Tim Newcomb, Popular Mechanics, 26 Apr. 2022
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The company urged customers to keep an eye on their bank and credit card statements for any irregularities.
—Don Sweeney, sacbee, 13 May 2018
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By the time it was rescheduled a few months later, the irregularity had disappeared.
—Sarah Shephard, The Athletic, 17 Mar. 2025
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The 1964 vote rested on just six votes and a few irregularities.
—Birmingham Magazine, AL.com, 19 Feb. 2018
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Lovestruck is sculptural and human — stones with a little irregularity, set to move with you, meant to be stacked and worn every day.
—Fairchild Studio, Footwear News, 14 Nov. 2025
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While the man spoke with a deputy, the deputy noticed irregularities in the man’s speech and called for medical assistance.
—Adam Lichtenstein, sun-sentinel.com, 28 Oct. 2019
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The imaging system found irregularities in the roof and a front quarter panel.
—Teri Figueroa, San Diego Union-Tribune, 24 Feb. 2024
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Testers felt the fit was true to size with a small amount of stretch throughout the upper to accommodate foot swelling or irregularities, such as bunions.
—Cory Smith, Outside Online, 19 Sep. 2024
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An analysis of the paper didn’t, in itself, ring alarm bells, but irregularities in the image did.
—Diane Bell, sandiegouniontribune.com, 13 Dec. 2017
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The scramble to ready the facility led to a string of other irregularities and mishaps.
—Jonathan Blitzer, New Yorker, 13 July 2026
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And the chocolate bars, sliced into breakable pieces, give no hint of irregularity when outside their wrappers.
—Bailey Loosemore, The Courier-Journal, 19 Sep. 2017
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Officials would use the paper trail to recount votes in the event of election irregularities.
—Kim Zetter, WIRED, 26 Nov. 2003
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These stones offer softness, warmth and a candlelit sparkle that comes from irregularity and hand-cut proportions.
—Malaika Crawford, Vogue, 21 Dec. 2025
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The real point of the game is to get Utahns to provide an affidavit of a voting irregularity.
—Bryan Schott, The Salt Lake Tribune, 6 Dec. 2021
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Comey’s lawyers had also seized on irregularities in the grand jury process in seeking to get the prosecution thrown out.
—Eric Tucker, Fortune, 24 Nov. 2025
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Comey’s lawyers had sought the grand jury materials out of concerns that irregularities in the process may have tainted the case.
—Dan Gooding, MSNBC Newsweek, 17 Nov. 2025
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Over time, that can lead to irregularities in the rhythm, which can progress to further heart attacks and eventually heart failure.
—Michael Irving, New Atlas, 18 Jan. 2025
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Ghosn was not supposed to leave Japan prior to his trial on three sets of charges of financial irregularities.
—Sebastian Blanco, Car and Driver, 4 Jan. 2020
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