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Recent Examples of anomalously
Scientists said downpours could be enhanced by anomalously warm sea surface temperatures off the California coast.
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Anthony Edwards, San Francisco Chronicle, 15 Feb. 2026
Another anomalously cold blast of air is forecast over the weekend.
—Dinah Voyles Pulver, USA Today, 4 Dec. 2025
Hazelton, who models hurricanes, said the storm has been fueled by anomalously warm waters in the Caribbean Sea.
—George Solis, NBC news, 28 Oct. 2025
The quality of his ball was so anomalously good.
—Matthew Futterman, New York Times, 19 Aug. 2025
For example, a 2020 study that examined anomalously dry conditions in the western US and northern Mexico between 2000 and 2018 determined that climate change contributed to nearly half of that drought’s severity.
—Bloomberg, Oc Register, 6 Aug. 2025
Anthony Edwards, San Francisco Chronicle, 15 Feb. 2026
Another anomalously cold blast of air is forecast over the weekend.
—Dinah Voyles Pulver, USA Today, 4 Dec. 2025
Hazelton, who models hurricanes, said the storm has been fueled by anomalously warm waters in the Caribbean Sea.
—George Solis, NBC news, 28 Oct. 2025
The quality of his ball was so anomalously good.
—Matthew Futterman, New York Times, 19 Aug. 2025
For example, a 2020 study that examined anomalously dry conditions in the western US and northern Mexico between 2000 and 2018 determined that climate change contributed to nearly half of that drought’s severity.
—Bloomberg, Oc Register, 6 Aug. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for anomalously
Adverb
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Continue stirring and splashing in water, aiming for where the flour has not yet clumped and shaking the bowl (or scraping down the sides) as needed to incorporate all the flour, until the mixture forms small, irregularly sized clumps, about rice- or pea-sized.—
The Washington Post,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
15 Apr. 2026
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Odd pieces that are too small or irregularly shaped to cut into sashimi can be easily minced for spicy poke.—
Stella Fong,
Outside,
10 Mar. 2026
Adverb
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February 19 – March 20 Practical choices can feel strangely comforting now.—
Tarot.com,
Chicago Tribune,
15 Apr. 2026
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Cherry had gone out for the first time since Tom left to do something just for herself—she’d gone out by herself for maybe the first time ever—and this strangely perfect night was here waiting for her.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
15 Apr. 2026
Adverb
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But his mouth was open and drooped peculiarly to one side, and his skin was sucked into his skeleton like a vacuum storage bag.—
Amanda Peet,
New Yorker,
21 Mar. 2026
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One mystery that the observations confirmed but unfortunately did not solve concerns Uranus’s peculiarly plummeting temperature.—
Lee Billings,
Scientific American,
24 Feb. 2026
Adverb
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Jason Bateman's character Clark Forrest rides his through the suburbs like a man who has made peace with being misunderstood, and the show has made the vehicle oddly compelling.—
Omar Kardoudi
April 20,
New Atlas,
20 Apr. 2026
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So somewhat oddly in front of the backdrop of the Bucks’ practice facility, there sat Antetokounmpo for what at times felt like a Heat sales pitch.—
Ira Winderman,
Sun Sentinel,
20 Apr. 2026
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“Anomalously.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/anomalously. Accessed 21 Apr. 2026.
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