anomaly

In a sentence

Six example sentences with anomaly, each labelled with its topic.

• The probe recorded a temperature anomaly near the vent, a reading forty degrees above everything around it.

  Science

• Speedrunners hunt for the one anomaly in the physics engine that lets a jump carry twice its intended distance.

  Gaming

• Analysts treated the quiet December as an anomaly, since every other holiday season had produced record spending.

  Economics

• The auditor flagged an anomaly in the ledger, a payment posted on a Sunday when the office was closed.

  Finance

• The monitoring tool spotted an anomaly at three in the morning, a burst of traffic from an address that usually sent nothing.

  Technology

• His forty-point game was an anomaly, since he had never scored more than fifteen in any other start.

  Basketball

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