Sample Sentences for
anomaly
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    "Basiliscus amoratus with three-toed genetic anomaly," she said, reading.  (source)
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    Because this seven-by-twenty-mile tract is surrounded on three sides by the protected acreage of the national park, it harbors more than its share of wolf, bear, caribou, moose, and other game, a local secret that's jealously guarded by those hunters and trappers who are aware of the anomaly.  (source)
    anomaly = unusual situation
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    i think she used the phrase "a craniofacial abnormality" to describe his face. or maybe it was "craniofacial anomaly."  (source)
    anomaly = something different than what is normally expected
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    I was thinking a lot about how they'd made this place exist even though it should've been underwater, and how I was for Dr. Maria a kind of Amsterdam, a half-drowned anomaly, and that made me think about dying.  (source)
    anomaly = something outside of the range of what is normally expected
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    And no other anomalies.†  (source)
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    Even my service in the Marine Corps was pretty common in Ohio, but at Yale, many of my friends had never spent time with a veteran of America's newest wars. In other words, I was an anomaly.  (source)
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    It is time I brought my will up to date; it is full of anomalies and anachronisms....I have rather a fancy for the idea of installing Julia here; so beautiful this evening, my dear; so beautiful always; much, much more suitable.†  (source)
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    Death sentences resulting from "judge override" were an anomaly, even back in 1989.†  (source)
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    Mitigation explains one of the great anomalies of plane crashes.†  (source)
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    A beautiful little anomaly absolutely unique.†  (source)
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    His human discontents were muted in the icy mists and the whole blowing otherworld of whiteouts and radio disruptions and unrelenting winds and total cold and objects that did not cast shadows and numerous freak readings on compasses and radar scopes and the BUFF that crashed on an ice sheet with live nukes aboard, anomalies of the eye, the mind, the systems themselves, and the experience made him sense the ghost-spume of some higher hippie consciousness.†  (source)
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    Those years were just an anomaly, historically speaking, the Commander said.†  (source)
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    And when we brought one of them to full term...there were intriguing anomalies in its EEG graphs, strangeness in its brainwave patterns that might have indicated heretofore unknown cerebral function.†  (source)
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