ANOMALOUSNESS Synonyms: 69 Similar and Opposite Words

anomalousness

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as in incompatibility

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Noun

This phenomenon, called cytoplasmic incompatibility, also occurs when male and female mosquitoes carrying different strains of the bacterium mate.

— Encyclopedia Britannica, Encyclopedia Britannica, 18 June 2026
This incompatibility has spurred a parallel machine economy where agents conduct millions of stablecoin payments via protocols like x402, effectively bypassing banks.

— Marko Stokić, Forbes.com, 16 June 2026

Definition of incompatibility

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Thomas said there’s a dichotomy in the league’s attempts to prioritize player safety on the court while ignoring their concerns off the court.

— Sabreena Merchant, New York Times, 1 July 2026
This kind of relationship made the lives of people living in ancient times unproblematic in terms of the dichotomy between the transcendent and the space of reality.

— Merve Emre, New Yorker, 28 June 2026

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Gallup research shows that managers account for at least 70% of the variance in team engagement across organizations.

— Tracy Lawrence, Forbes.com, 2 July 2026
The board also had to grant a request to loosen zoning rules, called a variance, to allow for six housing units — which is a few more than would normally be allowed on a lot of its size — and make the project possible.

— Chris Higgins, Kansas City Star, 24 June 2026

Definition of variance

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The clinical version dates to research in the 1960s and 1970s, when devices tracked heart rate variability, muscle tension and skin temperature to help people regulate what was once considered automatic.

— Samantha Agate, Charlotte Observer, 3 July 2026
When asked to run similar projections while modeling for factors such as return variability, family income and investor behavior, Morningstar showcases a more subdued picture of financial health for account holders at the same intervals.

— Ryan Ermey, CNBC, 3 July 2026

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San Francisco serves as a prime example of how the roaring AI industry is helping drive economic growth more broadly, but masking the economic inequality of lower-and-middle-income families.

— Bryan Mena, CNN Money, 7 July 2026
Twenty years later, that experiment is a global brand doing hundreds of millions in revenue, and the wrapper still looks unevenly broken on purpose, a small reminder of the inequality the whole company exists to fix.

— Afdhel Aziz, Forbes.com, 7 July 2026

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