How to Use anomaly in a Sentence

anomaly

noun
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  • We couldn't explain the anomalies in the test results.
  • Californians aren't the only ones vexed by rolling brownouts and other power-supply anomalies. Everyday power spikes, surges, sags, and line noise cause computers, stereo equipment, televisions, telephones, and other delicate electronic equipment to go psychotic or have complete nervous breakdowns.
    — Fortune, 25 June 2001
  • The shooting was not an anomaly in the Bronx of the era.
    — Neal Hirschfeld, New York Times, 2 Aug. 2019
  • Is this an anomaly, or is this a trend that the sport needs to fix?
    — Chandler Rome, Houston Chronicle, 15 May 2018
  • Whitebark pines are a bit of an anomaly in the tree world.
    — Arkansas Online, 30 July 2021
  • If Texas were an anomaly that would be the end of the story.
    — Mark N. Templeton, Forbes, 10 Mar. 2021
  • The field of flags’ absence this year may be more of an anomaly than a new norm.
    — Cody Boteler, baltimoresun.com, 1 May 2018
  • This tranche is going to show again that there's anomalies.
    — Fox News, 18 Sep. 2018
  • But Roach's brief hot streak turned out to be an anomaly.
    — Nick Moyle, San Antonio Express-News, 18 Dec. 2017
  • The Japanese prints that adorn the walls seem like an anomaly.
    — Jo Ellen Meyers Sharp, Indianapolis Star, 11 July 2019
  • The plot to kidnap and kill a governor may seem like an anomaly.
    — Arpan Lobo, Detroit Free Press, 8 Apr. 2022
  • With each passing day, new anomalies have come to light.
    — R Nagaraj, Quartz India, 10 Sep. 2019
  • Joyce and Kathy Zheng are a bit of an anomaly in the world of high school badminton.
    — Matt Le Cren, Naperville Sun, 11 May 2018
  • This is a rare anomaly of camaraderie and talent and joy.
    — Vulture, 26 Apr. 2022
  • Just five years ago, Ecuador was an anomaly in a region of chaos.
    — Anna Gordon, Time, 19 Aug. 2023
  • Montana has been something of an anomaly among red states.
    — Kurtis Lee, latimes.com, 25 May 2017
  • The flame-haired British songstress has always been something of a pop anomaly.
    — Patrick Ryan, USA TODAY, 28 June 2018
  • Coal mining jobs have risen in the past year, an anomaly after years of decline.
    — Lucinda Shen, Fortune, 31 Jan. 2018
  • Finding a white or red wild rose is an anomaly and a yellow one is even rarer.
    — Erynn Hassinger, Country Living, 22 Feb. 2023
  • Even the real bit with the sweater seems more of an anomaly for them than how things usually go between them.
    — Alan Sepinwall, Rolling Stone, 24 Nov. 2023
  • For them, the odd dune or geographic anomaly served as street signs.
    — Robert Draper, National Geographic, 13 June 2019
  • Armstrong and Hague are just two out of many who have shown resilience in the face of errors or anomalies.
    — Ashley Strickland, CNN, 17 June 2019
  • And, this golfing anomaly isn’t the only reason to pay a visit to the gorgeous course.
    — Stacey Leasca, Southern Living, 28 June 2018
  • Overall, the voting had a number of anomalies and outliers.
    — Michael Casagrande | McAsagrande@al.com, al, 21 July 2023
  • With race brought back into view, Moore and Trump are not anomalies.
    — Nancy D. Wadsworth, Vox, 30 Apr. 2018
  • The scoreline is also an anomaly in fixtures between the two nations.
    — SI.com, 13 Apr. 2018
  • The black hole struck researchers as an anomaly due to its sheer size, being a few million times the mass of our Sun.
    — Jack Knudson, Discover Magazine, 17 Jan. 2024
  • But there were anomalies here: For one, the music was buzzing and electronic.
    — Gia Kourlas, New York Times, 30 Oct. 2017
  • The loss of Madison’s oldest chocolate shop is an anomaly.
    — Barry Adams, The Seattle Times, 20 Dec. 2017
  • By the time Maezawa flies to the moon, the state of human spaceflight may make this flight look like less of an anomaly.
    — Joe Pappalardo, Popular Mechanics, 18 Sep. 2018

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