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as in abnormality
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as in arbitrariness
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Recent Examples of irregularity
By the time it was rescheduled a few months later, the irregularity had disappeared.
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Sarah Shephard, The Athletic, 17 Mar. 2025
These restatements can be catastrophic; studies have shown that a restatement leads to an average stock-price drop of 10%, and more than 20% in cases involving accounting irregularities.
—Brandon Kochkodin, Forbes, 5 Mar. 2025
Usually, the only way to identify these individuals is through irregularity reports submitted by test supervisors.
—Scott White, Forbes, 19 Mar. 2025
Last year, Netanyahu was fitted with a pacemaker after a heart irregularity was detected.
—David Faris, Newsweek, 29 Dec. 2024
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Sarah Shephard, The Athletic, 17 Mar. 2025
These restatements can be catastrophic; studies have shown that a restatement leads to an average stock-price drop of 10%, and more than 20% in cases involving accounting irregularities.
—Brandon Kochkodin, Forbes, 5 Mar. 2025
Usually, the only way to identify these individuals is through irregularity reports submitted by test supervisors.
—Scott White, Forbes, 19 Mar. 2025
Last year, Netanyahu was fitted with a pacemaker after a heart irregularity was detected.
—David Faris, Newsweek, 29 Dec. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for irregularity
Noun
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Gait abnormalities: Being duck-footed can cause permanent changes to your walk, sometimes limiting your range of motion.—
Mark Gurarie,
Health,
5 Apr. 2025
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Phthalates are also endocrine disruptors that have been linked to preterm birth, infant genital abnormalities, childhood obesity, asthma, cancer, cardiovascular issues, and low sperm count and testosterone in men.—
Kristen Rogers,
CNN Money,
2 Apr. 2025
Noun
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In the larger sense, along with truth comes a distortion of it, sometimes innocently and inadvertently but, more often than not, by design and for ulterior purposes.—
Eli Amdur,
Forbes.com,
13 Apr. 2025
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These distortions reduce a complex conflict to a morality play.—
U T Readers,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
10 Apr. 2025
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But the report cautioned that the positive results could change if current economic volatility leads to a deterioration of the jobs market.—
Betty Lin-Fisher,
USA Today,
20 Apr. 2025
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The region has been roiled by volatility and political unrest in the years since, as Ukraine tries to oust Russian forces from Crimea and Donbas.—
Nicholas Creel,
MSNBC Newsweek,
19 Apr. 2025
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With the help of this technology, defects were significantly reduced.—
Michael Amori,
Forbes.com,
15 Apr. 2025
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Doctors later discovered that Figari’s stroke was caused by a previously undetected congenital heart defect called a patent foramen ovale (PFO), in which a hole between the left and right chambers of the heart is left open as opposed to closing after birth, according to Penn Medicine.—
Vanessa Etienne,
People.com,
15 Apr. 2025
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Lives Lived: John Peck, known as the Mad Peck, was a cultural omnivore whose work as an underground cartoonist, artist, critic and disc jockey had a dry humor and an ornate eccentricity.—
German Lopez,
New York Times,
8 Apr. 2025
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In a stroke of luck, however, the two features have aligned to create a satisfying image that is helping scientists understand the eccentricities of star formation.—
Jack Knudson,
Discover Magazine,
25 Mar. 2025
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Both are sources of vitamin B9 and essential nutrients that help prevent neural tube defects (NTDs), a type of congenital malformation.—
Jennifer Lefton, MS, RD/N, CNSC, FAND,
Verywell Health,
7 Apr. 2025
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Vasquez Sura gives birth to a son who is later diagnosed with microtia, a congenital malformation of the external ear.—
George Petras,
USA Today,
7 Apr. 2025
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The rare genetic bone disorder makes people more susceptible to breaking and fracturing bones and leads to bone deformities and a curved spine, according to Johns Hopkins Medicine.—
Vanessa Etienne,
People.com,
18 Mar. 2025
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However, the improper disposal of the toxic waste led to dozens of children being born with limb deformities.—
Monica Mercuri,
Forbes,
3 Mar. 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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In the nineteen-nineties and two-thousands, as the center-left was evolving, the label was most effectively applied to those telegenic figures—Bill and Hillary Clinton, Tony Blair, John Edwards—who were suspected of ideological inconstancy and of substituting polls for principles.—
Benjamin Wallace-Wells,
The New Yorker,
29 Sep. 2022
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“Irregularity.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/irregularity. Accessed 24 Apr. 2025.
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