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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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Someone who gets hives or has gastrointestinal distress irregularly might not identify their dinner as the trigger of the symptoms, or might assume food poisoning.—
Eva Flowe
May 29,
Charlotte Observer,
29 May 2026
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Atrial fibrillation, or AFib, meant that his heart was beating irregularly, which could lead to blood clots, stroke, or heart failure.—
Vanessa Etienne,
PEOPLE,
15 May 2026
Adverb
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Bath linens could have been softer and more luxurious given the hotel's price point and strangely, there was no toilet brush to be found in the WC (separate from the shower and sink).—
Condé Nast,
Condé Nast Traveler,
4 June 2026
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In a case of life imitating art, this whodunnit explores the investigation behind her disappearance, strangely resembling one of Christie’s own novels, where everyone in her life becomes a suspect, including her brother, Monty (Trevena).—
Alex Ritman,
Variety,
1 June 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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The scene was genuinely awful to watch, but the movie—a story of plague, passion, period costumes, and an unwashed man in a tunic skipping town to cure writer’s block—ended up thrilling us; the portrayal of two creative minds working together (and apart) was, oddly, familiar.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
2 June 2026
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Digging, lifting oddly weighted objects and carrying things from one place to another are all part of the deal.—
Matt Parrott,
Arkansas Online,
31 May 2026
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“Anomalously.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/anomalously. Accessed 4 Jun. 2026.
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