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irregularly

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Recent Examples of irregularly Located on Avenida Eixo Monumental (Monumental Axis), the city’s central avenue, the highrise hotel has an unexpected façade, with windows arranged irregularly. Greyson Ferguson, Travel + Leisure, 5 Nov. 2025 This typically occurs in galaxies that have massive, dusty disks, are irregularly shaped, or that either are now interacting with or have recently gravitationally interacted with a massive neighbor. Big Think, 4 Nov. 2025 Today, nearly all migrants that arrive irregularly at the border are barred from seeking protection at the border and most are detained and processed for deportation. Dan Gooding, MSNBC Newsweek, 7 Oct. 2025 Both moons are irregularly shaped. Nola Taylor Tillman, Space.com, 1 Sep. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for irregularly
randomly
Adverb
  • When a mysterious and legendary skeleton, badly injured, randomly resurfaced in 2018, an interdisciplinary team of researchers went to work to find out who the person was.
    Maria Mocerino, Interesting Engineering, 10 Nov. 2025
  • The adults were randomly separated into two groups.
    Jacqueline Howard, CNN Money, 8 Nov. 2025

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“Irregularly.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/irregularly. Accessed 29 Nov. 2025.

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