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  • " 'Basiliscus amoratus with three-toed genetic anomaly,' " she said, reading.†   (source)
  • And yet the square was now attracting a trickle of visitors who seemed to find the anomaly most intriguing.†   (source)
  • Those years were just an anomaly, historically speaking, the Commander said.†   (source)
  • The restrictions amuse her; she sees them as a single afternoon's challenge, an anomaly never to be repeated.†   (source)
  • Mitigation explains one of the great anomalies of plane crashes.†   (source)
  • And no other anomalies.†   (source)
  • A beautiful little anomaly absolutely unique.†   (source)
  • Butler lay unconscious, possibly paralysed by the same gaseous anomaly.†   (source)
  • Also, I just ran across an anomaly advisory yesterday that said that cybrids were disappearing.†   (source)
  • All hope that this was merely an anomaly disappeared the next day, when the forces that had been battering the nation's economy erupted in a panic on Wall Street that caused stock prices to plummet.†   (source)
  • It's not generally in the way of parables, which Carol is, to treat anomalies.†   (source)
  • Everything and everyone else she'd experienced at the Circle hewed to a logical model, a rhythm, but Kalden was the anomaly.†   (source)
  • Aberrations live among us; they're not dangerous like Anomalies, who have to be separated from Society.†   (source)
  • "Before the simulation attack, part of the Abnegation aid effort involved testing the factionless for a certain genetic anomaly," she says.†   (source)
  • He's such a good man, at his core, that I am willing to write it off, to believe it truly was a sick anomaly, brought on by the strain we're both under.†   (source)
  • A faint anomaly in the room's air currents told him there was a secret exit to their right behind the filing cabinets.†   (source)
  • There's a writer coming into the Hollow to do research on the history, the legend, and what they're calling the anomalies.†   (source)
  • Not an average life, not even a normal one—a life in which genius is not an anomaly but an expectation.†   (source)
  • In Jim Kim's view, Zanmi Lasante wouldn't survive without the support of some large foundation or international agency, and it wouldn't get that support unless it was seen as something like a laboratory for the world, not just as a marvelous anomaly.†   (source)
  • Neither his mom nor his dad could explain it; as far as they knew, Alex Wheatley was an anomaly on both sides of the family.†   (source)
  • So I was beginning my new life as an anomaly, which figured about as much as it sucked.†   (source)
  • This street-level research made Venkatesh something of an anomaly.†   (source)
  • Aro sent me all over the world searching for such anomalies, and you simply stumble across it by accident and don't even realize what you have."†   (source)
  • Besides, since it had been originally designed to look for seismic events, Jones suspected it of a tendency to interpret anomalies as seismic events.†   (source)
  • 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)
  • The author of the study, Dara Kay Cohen, cites evidence from Haiti, Iraq, and Rwanda to suggest that female participation in Sierra Leone's sexual violence was not an anomaly.†   (source)
  • Dowell was no anomaly, and everyone on the backstretch knew it.†   (source)
  • He is an anomaly, a flaw in the system that can't be tolerated."†   (source)
  • But such an outburst is an anomaly.†   (source)
  • Clary, the Inquisitor was an anomaly.†   (source)
  • Let's see you go without anything to eat for three days, especially if you're a biological anomaly who needs three thousand calories a day minimum, and then someone presents you with a hot, smoky, charred piece of rat au jus.†   (source)
  • "Another anomaly in Christ's death—"†   (source)
  • The monument was a kind of cruel anomaly, honoring as it did the agents of genocide while the countless graves of those they had butchered elsewhere lay forever unmarked.†   (source)
  • Even supposedly knowledgeable and sensitive people react to good art by a woman as if it were an anomaly, a product of a freak nature or a direct result of her association with a male painter or mentor.†   (source)
  • 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)
  • Lincoln's death was thought to be an anomaly—even when a second president, James Garfield, was assassinated sixteen years later.†   (source)
  • There's been an anomaly.†   (source)
  • As for Hoss, he seems to be something of an anomaly, inasmuch as his pre-Auschwitz career straddled agriculture and the military.†   (source)
  • Worse yet, another time when we were climbing "up" stairs—at a piece level by the sketch—a gravitational anomaly caught us with a lull turn and we were suddenly sliding down the ceiling.†   (source)
  • She seemed some sort of genetic anomaly, a combination of every positive quality a human being should have: bright, hardworking, tall, and beautiful.   (source)
  • 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
  • Hutchison, Taske, and Mackenzie had indicated a potentially serious anomaly in his heartbeat.†   (source)
  • But saving Ky's artifact saves both of us from questioning and him from becoming an Anomaly.†   (source)
  • The anomaly of it haunts me on every level.†   (source)
  • Did they let that Anomaly out on purpose?†   (source)
  • If they find out that he has an artifact, will he become an Anomaly?†   (source)
  • Though no one knows for certain where the Anomalies are.†   (source)
  • And yet he could not fix what he came to call the III Anomaly.†   (source)
  • Among these sunglassed, fashionable people my brother is an anomaly.†   (source)
  • "And he asked about you, specifically, because you're sort of an anomaly."†   (source)
  • In retrospect all those anomalies make perfect sense.†   (source)
  • I was too frightened to do more than notice the anomaly; I didn't even guess at a reason.†   (source)
  • It didn't have anything to cause a gravitational anomaly.†   (source)
  • But there is an anomaly we are having a hard time sorting out.†   (source)
  • Experiments at facilities like the Institute of Noetic Sciences (IONS) in California and the Princeton Engineering Anomalies Research Lab (PEAR) had categorically proven that human thought, if properly focused, had the ability to affect and change physical mass.†   (source)
  • It's hard to believe that it's a coincidence this anomaly happens every seven years, with its start on your birthday.†   (source)
  • It was brief: — SUBJECT: Basiliscus amoratus with genetic anomaly (forwarded from Dr. Simpson's office) MATERIALS: posterior segment, ? partially eaten animal PROCEDURES PERFORMED.†   (source)
  • The color-tagging tells you who's anomalous, so you only have to pay attention to that particular anomaly.†   (source)
  • But we do know that there is an anomaly on Hyperion which they have not been able to factor into their predictive analyses.†   (source)
  • PARACOMPASS: any compass that determines direction by local magnetic anomaly; used where relevant charts are available and where a planet's total magnetic field is unstable or subject to masking by severe magnetic storms.†   (source)
  • How they managed to reduce sentences in the Pittman case, which was outside their jurisdiction in another county, was another anomaly.†   (source)
  • "But you're not an Anomaly," I say, trying to make light of things, knowing immediately that it's a mistake; there's nothing light about this.†   (source)
  • Because Patrick Markham himself had to spend time being healed, since the Anomaly waited in the office, quiet, and attacked Patrick, too.†   (source)
  • A Class One Anomaly should never have been unidentified, let alone allowed to roam the streets, to sneak into the government offices where Patrick worked and where his son was visiting him that day.†   (source)
  • And I realize why they didn't have us take the tablets when something happened to the first Markham boy: because we needed to remember how dangerous Anomalies can be.†   (source)
  • And even Anomalies, some say.†   (source)
  • European colonists brought a myth with its own long history, a myth tailored to account for what looked to them like an anomaly: civilization in darkest Africa, kings and aristocracies and peasants, an advanced social order a little like Europe's.†   (source)
  • Of course it would be wasteful to have water running to this secluded place; the souls managed details like that better than to leave such an anomaly behind.†   (source)
  • What they did have was infrared technology that would electronically strip Cyclops of enough foliage to reveal any suspicious anomalies, such as heat.†   (source)
  • For future reference, here are some things you can do if you're a six-year-old genetic anomaly with the ability to control other people's minds: 1) Get business-class tickets for yourself and three other genetic anomalies, plus a dog, on British Airways.†   (source)
  • He would call when he completed the Theorem, which led him back to it and the seemingly intractable III Anomaly.†   (source)
  • You're an anomaly, perhaps.†   (source)
  • Your genes are still damaged, but you have a genetic anomaly that allows you to be aware during simulations anyway.†   (source)
  • This was an anomaly.†   (source)
  • Additionally, each P-3C carried FLIRs, forward-looking infrared scanners, to identify the heat signature of a nuclear sub, and MADs, magnetic anomaly detectors that located the disturbance in the earth's magnetic field caused by a large chunk of ferrous metal like a submarine.†   (source)
  • The genetic anomaly that makes me aware during simulations also suggests I could be resistant to serums, so my truth serum testimony might not be reliable.†   (source)
  • That was the true meaning of the K-3 anomaly: Having the correct graph from the start proved not that the Theorem was accurate, but that there's a place in the brain for knowing what cannot be remembered.†   (source)
  • An anomaly localized on this planet.†   (source)
  • For future reference, here are some things you can do if you're a six-year-old genetic anomaly with the ability to control other people's minds: 1) Get business-class tickets for yourself and three other genetic anomalies, plus a dog, on British Airways.†   (source)
  • "Katherine X—and yes by then I had realized certainly that this was an awfully odd statistical anomaly, but I wasn't actively pursuing Katherines so much as I was actively pursuing girlfriends—was a smart-kid-summer-camp conquer, and I won her heart by, you guessed it, running in front of her bow on the archery course and claiming I'd been shot by Cupid's arrow, and she was the first girl I ever French-kissed, and I didn't know what to do so I sort of kept darting my tongue out from…†   (source)
  • Was Lacey an anomaly?†   (source)
  • Anomaly?†   (source)
  • He made a larger model and tried to arrange a dilation, or anomaly (he did not call it a "Gate") which would let him get in and out of the field himself.†   (source)
  • Used all his life to Ramsbotham anomalies, Rod nevertheless found those concerned with time confusing— planet-hopping via the gates did not seem odd.†   (source)
  • "Is this sword now present the direct successor in space-time sequential change, aside from theoretical anomalies involved in between-universe transitions, of the sword used to loll the Never-Born?"†   (source)
  • An electrocardiogram turned up an anomaly.†   (source)
  • It is time I brought my will up to date; it is full of anomalies and anachronisms….†   (source)
  • Too often, isolated manifestations of anomaly can be mistaken for a broad popular movement, and one should be careful not to ascribe to them a significance they do not deserve.†   (source)
  • He has an insight into the anomalies in the lives of the people here who, though they have an instinctive craving for human contacts, can't bring themselves to yield to it, because of the mistrust that keeps them apart.†   (source)
  • He saw none of the anomaly of his position.†   (source)
  • As to his dealing in the mild article of milk, by the by, there never was a greater anomaly.†   (source)
  • It is rather harder for a clergyman: Farebrother seems to be an anomaly.†   (source)
  • Ay; but it was an anomaly in prosperity.†   (source)
  • "And not only," the druggist went on, "are human beings subject to such anomalies, but animals also.†   (source)
  • "It's an odd anomaly in this bizarre element!" as one witty naturalist puts it.†   (source)
  • Now, it is a mere anomaly and incongruity here, out of date and out of purpose.†   (source)
  • I will presently say what I can for that anomaly—and in the most conciliatory fashion.†   (source)
  • This development has been sharply ridiculed as a logical anomaly and flat reversal of nature.†   (source)
  • She had been made to break an accepted social law, but no law known to the environment in which she fancied herself such an anomaly.†   (source)
  • Before she saw them Edna could hear them in altercation, the woman—plainly an anomaly—claiming the right to be allowed to perform her duties, one of which was to answer the bell.†   (source)
  • All the same, every time Joachim sat or stood beside his cousin's bed for ten minutes or so—and that happened ten times a day at least—he would report about all the little events and anomalies in the institution's daily life, and if Hans Castorp had questions they were always of a more general, impersonal nature.†   (source)
  • To one not inclined to drink, and gifted with a more serious turn of mind, such a bubbling, chattering, glittering chamber must ever seem an anomaly, a strange commentary on nature and life.†   (source)
  • Indeed, this one presented one of those anomalies of psychic and social reflex and motivation such as would tax the skill of not only the psychologist but the chemist and physicist as well, to unravel.†   (source)
  • But, as she walked homeward, and her survey of the facts of the case became larger, she began to think of the anomaly of her finding work in several weeks and his lounging in idleness for a number of months.†   (source)
  • He was interested by all the anomalies and contrarities of this lonesome world as contrasted with cities he had known almost exclusively, as well as the decidedly exotic and material life and equipment with which, at the Cranstons' and elsewhere, he was then surrounded.†   (source)
  • *m [Footnote m: See Appendix, F.] Reasons Of Certain Anomalies Which The Laws And Customs Of The Anglo-Americans Present Remains of aristocratic institutions in the midst of a complete democracy—Why?†   (source)
  • Mr. Tulkinghorn being always correct and exact; still that does not," says Sir Leicester, "that does not lessen the anomaly, which is fraught with strange considerations—startling considerations, as it appears to me."†   (source)
  • Imagine a truly respectable and amiable hen, by some portentous anomaly, taking to reflection and inventing combinations by which she might prevail on Hodge not to wring her neck, or send her and her chicks to market; the result could hardly be other than much cackling and fluttering.†   (source)
  • What struck Isabel first was that he was sitting while Madame Merle stood; there was an anomaly in this that arrested her.†   (source)
  • But during this rendering young Bob Coggan exhibited one of those anomalies which will afflict little people when other persons are particularly serious: in trying to check his laughter, he pushed down his throat as much of the tablecloth as he could get hold of, when, after continuing hermetically sealed for a short time, his mirth burst out through his nose.†   (source)
  • Even to-day the masses of the Negroes see all too clearly the anomalies of their position and the moral crookedness of yours.†   (source)
  • It was, however, the only book immediately at hand; and I indulged a vague hope that the excitement which now agitated the hypochondriac, might find relief (for the history of mental disorder is full of similar anomalies) even in the extremeness of the folly which I should read.†   (source)
  • Even at the age of twentyseven Austin Sloper had made his mark sufficiently to mitigate the anomaly of his having been chosen among a dozen suitors by a young woman of high fashion, who had ten thousand dollars of income and the most charming eyes in the island of Manhattan.†   (source)
  • She presents the curious anomaly of the most solid masonry joining with oak and hemp in constituting the completed ship.†   (source)
  • Every eye on board and on shore was turned towards us, every glass was produced and fixed upon our motions; for of all the strange sights which the gallant crew may have looked for, such an anomaly as a pleasure yacht, manned by such a party as ours, and cruising upon this strange and inhospitable shore, was the furthest from their thoughts.†   (source)
  • There is no point, among the many incomprehensible anomalies of the science of mind, more thrillingly exciting than the fact--never, I believe, noticed in the schools--that, in our endeavors to recall to memory something long forgotten, we often find ourselves upon the very verge of remembrance, without being able, in the end, to remember.†   (source)
  • By and by it finds how to join two things and see in them one nature; then three, then three thousand; and so, tyrannized over by its own unifying instinct, it goes on tying things together, diminishing anomalies, discovering roots running under ground whereby contrary and remote things cohere and flower out from one stem.†   (source)
  • …he is irreverently called by his neighbours, is in a state of simmering indignation; but he has not yet opened his lips except to say, in a resounding bass undertone, like the tuning of a violoncello, "Sehon, King of the Amorites; for His mercy endureth for ever; and Og the King of Basan: for His mercy endureth for ever"—a quotation which may seem to have slight bearing on the present occasion, but, as with every other anomaly, adequate knowledge will show it to be a natural sequence.†   (source)
  • Within sixty days that quaint and bizarre anomaly, the Royal Grant, would cease to be a living fact, and take its place among the curiosities of the past.†   (source)
  • Ralph had something of this same quality, this appearance of thinking that life was a matter of connoisseurship; but in Ralph it was an anomaly, a kind of humorous excrescence, whereas in Mr. Osmond it was the keynote, and everything was in harmony with it.†   (source)
  • Now as this law, under a modified form, is to this day in force in England; and as it offers in various respects a strange anomaly touching the general law of Fast and Loose-Fish, it is here treated of in a separate chapter, on the same courteous principle that prompts the English railways to be at the expense of a separate car, specially reserved for the accommodation of royalty.†   (source)
  • I must say that I had my doubts about the strict justice of this, and was not even frightened out of them by the bushel of wheat which reconciles all anomalies.†   (source)
  • That a young woman should demand that a gentleman whom she described as her very dear friend should be furnished with an opportunity to make himself agreeable to another young woman, a young woman whose attention had wandered and whose charms were greater—this was an anomaly which for the moment challenged all his ingenuity of interpretation.†   (source)
  • But I learned that the 'system' required high living; and, in short, to dispose of the system, once for all, I found that on that head and on all others, 'the system' put an end to all doubts, and disposed of all anomalies.†   (source)
  • The one American anomaly in this field is /Saviour/.†   (source)
  • But a number of anomalies remain.†   (source)
  • The English newspapers, with the exception of a few anomalies such as the /Pink-Un/, lean in the other direction; their fault is not slanginess, but an otiose ponderosity—in Dean Alford's words, "the insisting on calling common things by uncommon names; changing our ordinary short Saxon nouns and verbs for long words derived from the Latin.†   (source)
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