How to Use anomaly in a Sentence

anomaly

noun
  • We couldn't explain the anomalies in the test results.
  • But that may have been an anomaly.
    — ABC News, 28 Mar. 2026
  • Now, even a red car is a big anomaly.
    — Mikey O'Connell, HollywoodReporter, 27 Mar. 2026
  • These scenes were not anomalies.
    — Luis E. Romero, Forbes.com, 27 June 2026
  • But the youth sports boom was not a one-year anomaly.
    — Chris Russo, Sportico.com, 19 Dec. 2025
  • Is this an anomaly, or is this a trend that the sport needs to fix?
    — Chandler Rome, Houston Chronicle, 15 May 2018
  • The films that opened this weekend are not anomalies.
    — Tyler Chou, Forbes.com, 31 May 2026
  • The system is then trained to look for anomalies.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 5 Nov. 2025
  • The vervet monkey is not an anomaly.
    — Literary Hub, 7 Jan. 2026
  • This pattern is not an anomaly.
    — Charles Stanton, Forbes.com, 15 May 2026
  • To be sure, this is a rather small sample size so some could be anomalies.
    — John Melloy, CNBC, 29 Oct. 2025
  • Corey is what Davids calls an anomaly due to his quick grasp of the game.
    — Annie Ham, Charlotte Observer, 11 Apr. 2025
  • Tuesday’s loss, then, was not an anomaly.
    — Joshua Kloke, New York Times, 28 Jan. 2026
  • These aren’t edge cases or anomalies.
    — Heidi Farris, Forbes.com, 9 Sep. 2025
  • The field of flags’ absence this year may be more of an anomaly than a new norm.
    — Cody Boteler, baltimoresun.com, 1 May 2018
  • The close encounter wasn’t an anomaly.
    — Adam Ciralsky, Vanity Fair, 19 Mar. 2026
  • The war has also caused an anomaly of sorts in the oil market.
    — Damian J. Troise, Los Angeles Times, 2 Apr. 2026
  • The fact that these meetings are taking place at all is an anomaly.
    — David Balton, The Conversation, 15 June 2026
  • Just five years ago, Ecuador was an anomaly in a region of chaos.
    — Anna Gordon, Time, 19 Aug. 2023
  • Again, economists will be fussy about what can be called an anomaly.
    — Emma Burleigh, Fortune, 21 Oct. 2025
  • In this sense, K2 Think isn’t an anomaly.
    — Ron Schmelzer, Forbes.com, 16 Sep. 2025
  • That Palace game, just a few days ago, already looks like an anomaly.
    — James McNicholas, The Athletic, 28 Dec. 2024
  • In 15 years the anomaly jumped more than 2F!
    — Anna Skinner, MSNBC Newsweek, 6 Oct. 2025
  • But these were more like performance anomalies than the showy rule of the evening.
    — Chris Willman, Variety, 6 Apr. 2026
  • But that could be an anomaly – which would be welcome news for home buyers.
    — Francesca Pica, jsonline.com, 3 Mar. 2026
  • Bobrovsky should still have tread on the tires, and maybe last season was an anomaly.
    — Matt Reigle Outkick, FOXNews.com, 1 July 2026
  • The anomaly took 30 years to resolve.
    — Quanta Magazine, 8 Apr. 2026
  • Benet senior guard Ava Thomas is a bit of an anomaly.
    — Matt Le Cren, Chicago Tribune, 6 Feb. 2026
  • The plot to kidnap and kill a governor may seem like an anomaly.
    — Arpan Lobo, Detroit Free Press, 8 Apr. 2022
  • The Japanese prints that adorn the walls seem like an anomaly.
    — Jo Ellen Meyers Sharp, Indianapolis Star, 11 July 2019

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