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anomalous

[uh-nom-uh-luhs] / əˈnɒm ə ləs /


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It’s true that commodities on the whole did poorly from 2023 to 2024, but Emanuel calls that anomalous period a temporary “dip” that is now reversing.

From Barron's • Jan. 30, 2026

But a lesson is also the difficulty of concealing such cheating given the ease of detecting anomalous betting patterns.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 5, 2025

“It’s completely unprecedented, completely anomalous — representative, I think, of a major transformation of our normal political life,” said Jack Rakove, a Stanford University emeritus professor of history and political science.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 31, 2025

“This means that January 2025 stands out as anomalous even by the standards of the last two years,” Hausfather explains.

From Salon • Feb. 6, 2025

So he repeated the experiment with mercury, and reproduced the anomalous space.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton




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