- plural of anomaly.
anomalies
Americannoun
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The team cited charts illustrating that temperature anomalies lead world food prices by about 12 months.
From MarketWatch ● Nov. 3, 2026
The LZB system tracks train positions and automatically applies the brakes if it detects any anomalies.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 30, 2026
Temperatures above 30C have also been recorded for the first time in parts of the tropical Pacific, while record sea-surface temperature anomalies and exceptional subsurface warmth have been observed.
From BBC ● Oct. 13, 2026
"We started to notice these warm-water anomalies on either side of marine heatwaves and realized that they're actually embedded within larger periods of warm water," explained lead author Ricardo Utzig Nardi M.S.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 30, 2026
In retrospect all those anomalies make perfect sense.
From "Blink" by Malcolm Gladwell
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