Crossword-Solution: ANOMALY 7 letters, 169 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 12

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Word Word Type Definition
Anomaly n. Deviation from the common rule; an irregularity; anything
anomalous.
Anomaly n. The angular distance of a planet from its perihelion, as
seen from the sun. This is the true anomaly. The eccentric anomaly is a
corresponding angle at the center of the elliptic orbit of the planet.
The mean anomaly is what the anomaly would be if the planet's angular
motion were uniform.
Anomaly n. The angle measuring apparent irregularities in the motion
of a planet.
Anomaly n. Any deviation from the essential characteristics of a
specific type.

We have 169 clues for the answer “ANOMALY”

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"___ drink Pepsi, but ah'll have a Coke few don't mind" 1 answer
'09 Ace Frehley album 1 answer
Abberation 1 answer
Atypical occurrence 1 answer
Bird that can't fly, for instance. 1 answer
Cold day in July, for example. 1 answer
Cousin of a paradox. 1 answer
Departure from the common rule. 1 answer
Deviation from a general rule 1 answer
Deviation from the norm 1 answer
Deviation from the rule 1 answer
Deviation from the standard 1 answer
Deviation from the usual 1 answer
Deviation of a sort 1 answer
Freak occurrence 1 answer
Hard-to-classify sort 1 answer
It's not normal 1 answer
Odd exception 1 answer
Odd occurrence 1 answer
Outlier 1 answer
PROGRESS from perihelion of a body/planet in its orbit (astron.) 1 answer
Pattern breaker 1 answer
Peculiar situation 1 answer
Rule exception 1 answer
Something odd 1 answer
Something out of keeping with the usual thing. 1 answer
Something out of place 1 answer
Standard deviation? 1 answer
State of being out of place. 1 answer
Surprise for a statistician 1 answer
Uncommon situation. 1 answer
Unusual situation 1 answer
VARIATION from the normal 1 answer
a person who is unusual 1 answer
position of a planet as defined by its angular distance from its perihelion 1 answer
Exception to the rule 2 answers
Departure, of a sort 2 answers
It's not the norm 2 answers
It's peculiar 2 answers
Odd one out 2 answers
Peculiar thing 2 answers
Something strange 2 answers
Unusual occurrence 2 answers
Weird thing 2 answers
Unexpected occurrence 3 answers
Freak of nature. 7 answers
clownishness 8 answers
AN EXTREME DEVIATION FROM THE MEAN 10 answers
DEVIATION COURSE 10 answers
DEVIATION FROM THE NORMAL OR COMMON ORDER OR FORM OR RULE 10 answers
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Hint 1 meaning
The superficial contents of any figure; the surface included within any given lines; superficial extent; as, the area of a square or a triangle.
Hint 2 anagram
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Sentences with ANOMALY (5)

But CNN and other financial observers at- tributed the anomaly to random factors unconnected to the secret panic that was spreading through Corporate America.
Terminal Compromise Winn Schwartau 1993
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.
The Awakening and Selected Short Stories Kate Chopin 1994
Rowland noted the difference between his present frankness and his reticence during the first six months of his engagement, and sometimes wondered whether it was not rather an anomaly that he should expatiate more largely as the happy event receded.
Roderick Hudson Henry James 2006
Bernard’s sense of the anomaly grew rapidly less acute; he made various observations which helped it to seem natural.
Confidence Henry James 2006
Wentworth used it freely; for though he had not been exactly familiar with it, he found it convenient as a help toward classifying Felix, who, as a young man extremely clever and active and apparently respectable and yet not engaged in any recognized business, was an importunate anomaly.
The Europeans Henry James 1994

Quotes with ANOMALY (3)

Every sign, linguistic or nonlinguistic, spoken or written (in the usual sense of this opposition), as a small or large unity, can be cited, put between quotation marks; thereby it can break with every given context, and engender infinitely new contexts in an absolutely nonsaturable fashion. This does not suppose that the mark is valid outside its context, but on the contrary that there are only contexts without any center of absolute anchoring. This citationality, duplicatio…
Jacques Derrida Margins of Philosophy
Any human action that goes against what is ordinary, is deemed as an anomaly.
Abhijit Naskar In Search of Divinity: Journey to The Kingdom of Conscience
Time that had not come yet — an anomaly in itself — had the fiercest reality for her. It was a hard wind in her face; if she had made the world, every tree would be bent, every stone weathered, every bough stripped by that steady and contrary wind. Lucille saw in everything its potential for invidious change.
Marilynne Robinson Housekeeping
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Appears in: Boston Globe, Crossroads, CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, NYT, Rock & Roll, S&S, Universal, USA TODAY, WP, WSJ.

Used 67 times in crossword archives (1951–2025).