irregularities

noun

plural of irregularity
as in abnormalities

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  1. abnormalities
  2. distortions
  3. defects
  4. flaws
  5. imperfections
  6. deformities
  7. blemishes
Noun
  • After her annual mammogram showed abnormalities, Oteri hadn’t initially been concerned.
    — Eileen Finan, PEOPLE, 26 Aug. 2026
  • The scan would serve as an additional safeguard, since breast MRIs can detect abnormalities that mammograms miss.
    — Lauren Sausser, Miami Herald, 26 Aug. 2026
Definition of abnormalities
Noun
  • Leverage, funding fragility and severe distortions in capital allocation can do far more lasting economic damage than modest deviations of inflation or employment from target.
    — Joao Gomes, Fortune, 25 Aug. 2026
  • Lamont sees greater potential for distortions in individual names and corners of the market favored by retail traders.
    — Lisa Kim,Lee Ying Shan, CNBC, 17 Aug. 2026
Definition of distortions
Noun
  • Another approach would be to make electrolytes with fewer internal defects and extremely low electronic leakage, reducing the sites where lithium dendrites can begin.
    — Neetika Walter, Interesting Engineering, 28 Aug. 2026
  • The project has since faced criticism over structural defects.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 28 Aug. 2026
Definition of defects
Noun
  • For people like Carmichael or Williams, who devoted their lives to the struggle for freedom for all people, support for Cuban self-determination also required a critical engagement with the flaws of its government.
    — Anne Garland Mahler, The Conversation, 25 Aug. 2026
  • Here was a team unable to shake its bullpen blues, a club that has fought back from the brink only to again succumb to the same old flaws.
    — Cody Stavenhagen, New York Times, 25 Aug. 2026
Definition of flaws
Noun
  • Turning the measured effect into a practical quantum-control tool will require researchers to understand and manage the remaining optical imperfections.
    — Rupendra Brahambhatt, Interesting Engineering, 30 Aug. 2026
  • The irregularity helps disguise the inevitable imperfections that come with exposure to weather and life in the country.
    — Kathryn O’Shea-Evans, Robb Report, 30 Aug. 2026
Definition of imperfections
Noun
  • For example, patients with bunion deformities may not be able to tolerate their hallux being forced in a straighter position.
    — Karla Rodriguez, Footwear News, 24 Aug. 2026
  • Fetuses of mice suddenly exposed to QACs developed deformities and neural tube defects similar to spina bifida in humans.
    — Sandee LaMotte, CNN Money, 11 Aug. 2026
Definition of deformities
Noun
  • It’s formulated with an 8 percent concentration of mandelic acid, an ingredient that decongests pores, combats existing and prevents new blemishes, evens out tone, and plumps wrinkles.
    — Tamim Alnuweiri, InStyle, 2 Sep. 2026
  • More than 3,200 pistons distort two flexible mirrors with near atomic-scale precision to account for blemishes.
    — Noah Haggerty, Los Angeles Times, 28 Aug. 2026
Definition of blemishes
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