ANOMALY Synonyms: 58 Similar and Opposite Words

anomaly

noun

ə-ˈnä-mə-lē

as in exception

something that is different from what is ordinary or expected her C grade is an anomaly, as she's never made anything except A's and B's before

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as in abnormality

a person, thing, or event that is far from normal snow in July is an anomaly in most of the northern hemisphere

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Recent Examples of anomaly Wallstedt felt Game 1 was an anomaly all around, for both teams, with the rare 9-6 score. —

Joe Smith, New York Times, 9 May 2026 Law enforcement from the South Elgin Police Department and Fox Valley Major Crimes Task Force spent Thursday at a home in the 800 block of Revere Road after ground-penetrating radar found anomalies underground that police said warranted further investigation. —

Sara Tenenbaum, CBS News, 8 May 2026 Blue Origin just hit a bump in the road toward that liftoff, however — an anomaly experienced by its New Glenn rocket during its most recent liftoff. —

Chelsea Gohd, Space.com, 8 May 2026 Grey’s is quite the anomaly, particularly in this time in television. —

Katie Campione, Deadline, 7 May 2026 See All Example Sentences for anomaly

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Noun

With very few exceptions, an end was declared, not only to empires, but also to city-states, duchies, principalities, emirates, sultanates, caliphates, khanates, agencies, princely states, colonies, suzerains, dependencies, mandates, tributaries, condominia and protectorates.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 18 May 2026
In the aggregate, there is a correlation between earlier picks and better outcomes, but exceptions abound.

— Dan Greene, New Yorker, 18 May 2026