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as in deformities
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as in abnormalities
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The disease can also cause foot deformities that worsen over time.—
Diana Leyva,
Nashville Tennessean,
24 Oct. 2025 -
From a practical standpoint, however, pointy-toed shoes can lead to foot deformities and health problems.—
Michael Watson,
The Conversation,
20 Oct. 2025
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But a self-exam shouldn’t just involve touch; look for visual changes or abnormalities on your breasts, too.—
Anisa Arsenault,
Health,
24 Oct. 2025
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If the aneurysm is found in a healthy patient and doesn’t show any high-risk features, doctors will monitor it and check for signs of growth or other abnormalities over time.—
Kaan Ozcan,
NBC news,
23 Oct. 2025
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Interestingly, the model predicts protein interactions and even forecasts which mutations will disrupt the communication between these vital molecules.—
Mrigakshi Dixit,
Interesting Engineering,
27 Oct. 2025
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Scientists call these mutations.—
Chelsea Bailey,
CNN Money,
25 Oct. 2025
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Similar to finding that planets do not orbit the earth, the search for economics anomalies requires searching for empirical facts that cannot (easily) be explained using the standard economic model where everyone chooses by optimizing and makes no systematic mistakes.—
Emma Burleigh,
Fortune,
21 Oct. 2025
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In the new study, the team hunted for similar potassium anomalies in Earth's oldest and deepest rocks.—
Sharmila Kuthunur,
Space.com,
20 Oct. 2025
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These are nature’s real-life mutants, each reminding us that evolution is the most creative engineer of all.—
Kaif Shaikh,
Interesting Engineering,
17 Oct. 2025
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The mutants were identified in the 1940s by researchers at the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory in Tennessee, who were working on the effects of radiation as part of the Manhattan Project.—
Beth Mole,
ArsTechnica,
6 Oct. 2025
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“Malformations.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/malformations. Accessed 1 Nov. 2025.
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