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as in abnormality
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as in arbitrariness
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Recent Examples of irregularity
About a year ago in May 2024, a historically powerful geomagnetic storm was responsible for some reports of power grid irregularities and interference with GPS signals – even farming equipment.
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Eric Lagatta, USA Today, 19 June 2025
Italian football loves a scandal, and Brescia have been demoted to Serie C after receiving a points deduction for financial irregularities.
—Phil Hay, New York Times, 30 May 2025
Compounding investor worries are governance issues, including previous allegations of accounting irregularities, delays in SEC filings, and scrutiny from short sellers.
—Trefis Team, Forbes.com, 5 June 2025
Satellite orientation irregularities may occur; increased drag on low Earth-orbit satellites is possible.
—Theo Burman, MSNBC Newsweek, 3 June 2025
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Eric Lagatta, USA Today, 19 June 2025
Italian football loves a scandal, and Brescia have been demoted to Serie C after receiving a points deduction for financial irregularities.
—Phil Hay, New York Times, 30 May 2025
Compounding investor worries are governance issues, including previous allegations of accounting irregularities, delays in SEC filings, and scrutiny from short sellers.
—Trefis Team, Forbes.com, 5 June 2025
Satellite orientation irregularities may occur; increased drag on low Earth-orbit satellites is possible.
—Theo Burman, MSNBC Newsweek, 3 June 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for irregularity
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The term is often used interchangeably with congenital heart defect, which refers specifically to a structural abnormality of the heart that is present at birth and needs medical or surgical intervention.—
Marcus K. Dowling,
The Tennessean,
2 July 2025
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Pulmonic stenosis is a congenital heart defect where the flow of blood from the heart to the lungs is obstructed, and a grade VI murmur is the most intense type of heart murmur, typically indicating a significant abnormality.—
Lydia Patrick,
MSNBC Newsweek,
21 June 2025
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Justice Samuel Alito warned in his own concurrence against the CASA opinion being undermined by distortions of the class action and standing rules in future cases.—
The Editors,
National Review,
27 June 2025
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Trying to keep the integrity of the original, those distortions remain.—
Tim Greiving,
HollywoodReporter,
25 June 2025
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Manufacturers are adjusting supply chains and renegotiating contracts to manage price volatility.—
Sheryl Estrada,
Fortune,
30 June 2025
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Yet Kutz cautioned that the price could change due to inflation, market volatility, and the possibility of tariffs.—
Daniel I. Dorfman,
Chicago Tribune,
30 June 2025
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This doesn’t help since defects cluster and entire batches quietly go rogue while the QA team nods at those green dashboards.—
Raghu Para,
Forbes.com,
10 July 2025
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As more cars rely on advanced software, addressing defects quickly is essential to protect drivers, passengers and pedestrians, and to maintain trust in automotive safety standards.—
Billal Rahman,
MSNBC Newsweek,
2 July 2025
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Cena, despite his attempts at wackadoo eccentricity, seldom has enough energy to create meaningful contrast with Elba’s straight man (in fact, Elba is often the funnier and sharper of the two), and most dialogue scenes end up flat and repetitive.—
Siddhant Adlakha,
IndieWire,
27 June 2025
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That’s a straightforward but wonderfully satisfying template, and the kind of thing that’s become a rarity in a genre where the main character’s eccentricities might as well be a shorthand that distinguishes one show from another.—
Nina Metz,
Chicago Tribune,
11 June 2025
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Other effects, such as developmental malformations in a fetus and cancer, have also been linked to this surfactant.1312 2.—
Anna Giorgi,
Verywell Health,
4 Mar. 2025
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After a long, eight-year battle, in which the hospital claimed that Maura had a genetic underlying vascular malformation in the brain, jurors sided with the Gallaghers, concluding that Maura's death was preventable.—
Gillian Telling,
People.com,
9 May 2025
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Her dwarfism caused a kidney deformity, and she's been in kidney failure for most of her life.—
Lydia Patrick,
MSNBC Newsweek,
2 July 2025
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However, severe, inflexible deformities that need aggressive bony carpentry to correct the spine’s alignment carry complication rates up to 60%, with major deformity surgeries posing a 1% mortality risk within a year.—
Richard Menger MD MPA,
Forbes.com,
17 June 2025
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Europeans, awakened to the danger of American inconstancy, are scrambling to spend trillions more on defense in coming years.—
Adam Rasmi,
Time,
20 June 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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“Irregularity.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/irregularity. Accessed 14 Jul. 2025.
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