Definition of ABERRANT

Examples of aberrant in a Sentence

Adjective The stones, silvered in the moon's aberrant light, shone like spectral tombs, and the figures, which Dalgliesh knew were Helena, Lettie and the Bostocks, became discarnate shapes disappearing into the darkness. — P. D. James, The Private Patient, 2008 … as if he had happily spied an aberrant crocus amid the wintry gray scene of Presidential impeachment. — Francis X. Clines, New York Times, 8 Jan. 1999 … at the brief and aberrant moment in time when it was possible to believe that America owed its great place in the world to its military and moral virtue rather than to the weight of its currency. — Lewis H. Lapham, Harper's, March 1992 a year of aberrant weather—record rainfall in the summer, record heat in the autumn aberrant behavior can be a sign of rabies in a wild animal

Recent Examples on the Web: Adjective In the wake of He’s 2018 revelation, Denis Rebrikov, a DNA sequencing specialist at the Pirogov Russian National Research Medical University, has pursued a project to correct a deafness mutation in couples who each have the aberrant gene. — Jon Cohen, Science | AAAS, "Commission charts narrow path for editing human embryos," 3 Sep. 2020 If one of their 37 genes is aberrant, mitochondria can’t perform, resulting in any of hundreds of mitochondrial diseases. — Sharon Begley, STAT, "Gene-editing discovery could point the way toward a ‘holy grail’: cures for mitochondrial diseases," 8 July 2020 Even if half of Americans are unaware of how their police have been militarized, and some further fraction of the population has come to accept it as simply the new normal, foreign observers do see how aberrant and menacing the situation is. — Michael Shank, The New York Review of Books, "How Police Became Paramilitaries," 3 June 2020 About half of melanoma patients have a gene called BRAF that contains a mutation producing an aberrant protein that drives tumor growth. — Jocelyn Kaiser, Science | AAAS, "On-off dosing of cancer drugs does not help melanoma patients," 27 Apr. 2020 That’s an aberrant message from any president, let alone a wartime one. — Los Angeles Times, "Column: Catastrophes normally bring Americans together. Why not now?," 19 Apr. 2020 Park’s neuroscience research indicates aberrant brain responses to reward cues. — Jennifer Couzin-frankel, Science | AAAS, "Rethinking anorexia: Biology may be more important than culture, new studies reveal," 9 Apr. 2020 But the only civic role Democrats are allowed to play, in this vision, is to facilitate the removal of an aberrant Republican president. — Marisa Kabas, The New Republic, "The Panic of the Never Trumpers," 31 Jan. 2020 Meanwhile, interest has grown in new approaches, especially in those focused on an aberrant protein called tau. — Washington Post, "Alzheimer’s Disease," 5 Dec. 2019

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