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as in abnormality
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as in arbitrariness
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Recent Examples of irregularity
However, in December 2024, a Romanian appeals court ruled that the case against the Tates could not go to trial due to several legal and procedural irregularities from the prosecutors, per the Associated Press.
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Becca Longmire, People.com, 10 Apr. 2025
What’s left is still good quality leather, despite natural irregularities, small defects or being too small to be used.
—Lily Templeton, Footwear News, 30 Apr. 2025
Legacy and ever-new electoral irregularities are a major reason chavismo continues to rule Venezuela.
—Matthew Wills, JSTOR Daily, 20 Apr. 2025
Recent research published in Trends in Cognitive Sciences (2024) explored how subtle facial irregularities, including asymmetrical or imperfect smiles, are increasingly being perceived as more trustworthy and emotionally expressive than those associated with cosmetic perfection.
—Kate Hardcastle, Forbes.com, 15 Apr. 2025
See All Example Sentences for irregularity
Becca Longmire, People.com, 10 Apr. 2025
What’s left is still good quality leather, despite natural irregularities, small defects or being too small to be used.
—Lily Templeton, Footwear News, 30 Apr. 2025
Legacy and ever-new electoral irregularities are a major reason chavismo continues to rule Venezuela.
—Matthew Wills, JSTOR Daily, 20 Apr. 2025
Recent research published in Trends in Cognitive Sciences (2024) explored how subtle facial irregularities, including asymmetrical or imperfect smiles, are increasingly being perceived as more trustworthy and emotionally expressive than those associated with cosmetic perfection.
—Kate Hardcastle, Forbes.com, 15 Apr. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for irregularity
Noun
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King underwent surgery Tuesday after doctors discovered a heart abnormality.—
Anne M. Peterson,
Los Angeles Times,
16 May 2025
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After undergoing tests, it was discovered that King had a heart abnormality and underwent successful surgery to address it.—
Ben Morse,
CNN Money,
14 May 2025
Noun
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In Antioquia, many of those connected by the paisa mutation live with a similar sense of distortion.—
Marion Renault,
The Atlantic,
13 May 2025
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Or in the case of audio models, technology that helps producers clean up unwanted distortion might be fair use, where models that generate songs in the style of popular artists might not, the office opined.—
ArsTechnica,
ArsTechnica,
12 May 2025
Noun
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Despite the volatility in such high-frequency data, the market is crucial for Tesla.—
Christiaan Hetzner,
Fortune,
13 May 2025
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The fintech space is characterized by its volatility due to macro uncertainty, inflationary pressures, rising interest rates, geopolitical uncertainty, and many other factors.—
Jack McCullough,
Forbes.com,
13 May 2025
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Isaac soon betrays and murders the soldiers, including Peck's character, and defects to the Washington Liberation Front.—
Brendan Morrow,
USA Today,
6 May 2025
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In the new suit, lawyers for the board presented a detailed explanation of defects in the tower that emerged from the start.—
Dionne Searcey,
New York Times,
4 May 2025
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Through the divination trial, the audience learns that much of Lilia’s eccentricity comes from her experience living life out of order, giving more context to moments earlier in the season, where the character would blurt out what seemed to be random statements.—
Marcus Jones,
IndieWire,
12 May 2025
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Lyonne forged a career by finding and later creating projects that capitalized on her undeniably intrepid personality, wrapping the roles around her eccentricities rather than conforming to what was expected of a female performer in Hollywood.—
Lorraine Ali,
Los Angeles Times,
8 May 2025
Noun
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Acutis is credited with two miracles – the healing of a 4-year-old Brazilian boy with a serious pancreatic malformation and of a 21-year-old Costa Rican woman who was near death after a tragic bicycle accident.—
Joshua McElwee,
USA Today,
16 Apr. 2025
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Research has connected phthalates with reproductive problems, such as genital malformations and undescended testes in baby boys and lower sperm counts and testosterone levels in adult males.—
Sandee LaMotte,
CNN Money,
15 Apr. 2025
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However, the council continued to deny any connection between the waste removal and the limb deformities, according to The Guardian.—
Monica Mercuri,
Forbes,
3 Mar. 2025
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The article had uncovered four instances of limb deformities, and 19 families ended up signing onto the class action suit.—
Olivia B. Waxman,
TIME,
27 Feb. 2025
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Years of naval inconstancy with repair work drove Vigor Industrial—a once vibrant and growing maritime conglomerate—into the welcoming arms of hedge funds, which wasted no time in striping the company of value.—
Craig Hooper,
Forbes,
20 Feb. 2024
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In the nineteen-nineties and two-thousands, as the center-left was evolving, the label was most effectively applied to those telegenic figures—Bill and Hillary Clinton, Tony Blair, John Edwards—who were suspected of ideological inconstancy and of substituting polls for principles.—
Benjamin Wallace-Wells,
The New Yorker,
29 Sep. 2022
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“Irregularity.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/irregularity. Accessed 21 May. 2025.
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