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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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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
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Currently, Yellowstone’s geyser watch notes that Echinus is continuing to erupt irregularly and that each eruption lasts for 3 to 5 minutes and reaches around 30 feet in height.—
Evie Carrick,
Travel + Leisure,
4 Mar. 2026
Adverb
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But campuses across the country—places where, just two years ago, students occupied buildings and colonized the quad to protest Israel’s war against Hamas—are strangely silent.—
Rose Horowitch,
The Atlantic,
25 Mar. 2026
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Sometimes darkly humorous, sometimes strangely heartbreaking, this immersive storytelling experience is Edgar Allan Poe for the modern age; a heart-to-bleeding-heart with madmen, murderers and monsters all dying to tell their story.—
William Earl,
Variety,
25 Mar. 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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Some found humor—or even satisfaction—in the oddly precise fit.—
Lydia Patrick,
MSNBC Newsweek,
30 Mar. 2026
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The plots are bizarre—and often oddly racist, homophobic, transphobic, or misogynist.—
Sam Stone,
Bon Appetit Magazine,
27 Mar. 2026
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“Anomalously.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/anomalously. Accessed 1 Apr. 2026.
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