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Recent Examples of anomalously
Another anomalously cold blast of air is forecast over the weekend.
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Dinah Voyles Pulver, USA Today, 4 Dec. 2025
Hazelton, who models hurricanes, said the storm has been fueled by anomalously warm waters in the Caribbean Sea.
—George Solis, NBC news, 28 Oct. 2025
The quality of his ball was so anomalously good.
—Matthew Futterman, New York Times, 19 Aug. 2025
For example, a 2020 study that examined anomalously dry conditions in the western US and northern Mexico between 2000 and 2018 determined that climate change contributed to nearly half of that drought’s severity.
—Bloomberg, Oc Register, 6 Aug. 2025
Dinah Voyles Pulver, USA Today, 4 Dec. 2025
Hazelton, who models hurricanes, said the storm has been fueled by anomalously warm waters in the Caribbean Sea.
—George Solis, NBC news, 28 Oct. 2025
The quality of his ball was so anomalously good.
—Matthew Futterman, New York Times, 19 Aug. 2025
For example, a 2020 study that examined anomalously dry conditions in the western US and northern Mexico between 2000 and 2018 determined that climate change contributed to nearly half of that drought’s severity.
—Bloomberg, Oc Register, 6 Aug. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for anomalously
Adverb
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Odd pieces that are too small or irregularly shaped to cut into sashimi can be easily minced for spicy poke.—
Stella Fong,
Outside,
10 Mar. 2026
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Currently, Yellowstone’s geyser watch notes that Echinus is continuing to erupt irregularly and that each eruption lasts for 3 to 5 minutes and reaches around 30 feet in height.—
Evie Carrick,
Travel + Leisure,
4 Mar. 2026
Adverb
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These unprecedented developments deserve attention at any time, but arguably especially at the present, strangely uncertain time in history.—
Arthur I. Cyr,
Chicago Tribune,
17 Mar. 2026
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His face—framed by white hair, crisscrossed by age lines, and rendered strangely magnetic by unusually small, ice-blue eyes—has become the face of psychiatric euthanasia in the Netherlands.—
Charles Lane,
The Atlantic,
15 Mar. 2026
Adverb
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One mystery that the observations confirmed but unfortunately did not solve concerns Uranus’s peculiarly plummeting temperature.—
Lee Billings,
Scientific American,
24 Feb. 2026
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Facing a peculiarly hostile administration in Washington, Pretoria has ample reason to pursue greater intra-BRICS cooperation—not out of ideological affinity with its members but out of the strategic necessity to protect itself against an erratic and punitive United States.—
OLIVER STUENKEL,
Foreign Affairs,
18 Nov. 2025
Adverb
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Her Oscar win for Weapons — playing what has been described as the terrifying, yet oddly charming witch Aunt Gladys — caps a career that spans decades.—
Hanna Wickes,
Miami Herald,
16 Mar. 2026
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Madigan, who won for her role as the terrifying yet oddly charming witch Aunt Gladys in the 2025 film Weapons, has been married to fellow actor Ed Harris since 1983.—
Hanna Wickes,
Charlotte Observer,
16 Mar. 2026
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“Anomalously.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/anomalously. Accessed 21 Mar. 2026.
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