anomalous

Mrs Justice Lang added: "This results in an anomalous situation where officers who do not have basic vetting clearance cannot be dismissed."

In mid December, four federal agencies declared the investigators had "not identified anything anomalous" about the reports.

Government agencies previously said they had "not identified anything anomalous".

The researchers call the statistical trends "tail-widening" that is, the anomalous occurrence of temperatures at the far upper end, or beyond, anything that would be expected with simple upward shifts in mean summer temperatures.

To say that this election is extraordinary or anomalous or unprecedented, while clearly true, doesn’t come close to capturing the bizarre alternate-universe quality of this entire episode in our nation’s history.