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Recent Examples of aberration This has become the norm, with the club’s outstanding start appearing more like the aberration with each passing day. Tim Britton, New York Times, 13 Sep. 2025 His killing could become not just a tragedy but a catalyst—an event that radicalizes ever more Americans, less an aberration than a feature of our increasingly perilous national politics. Eric Cortellessa, Time, 11 Sep. 2025 Based on the 2023 video game, an unnamed protagonist (Kazunari Ninomiya) gets trapped in an endlessly repeating patch of a subway station hallway, only able to get closer to an exit by identifying bizarre and incongruent aberrations in his environment. William Earl, Variety, 8 Sep. 2025 According to Amit Sevak, CEO of ETS, pointing to the success of a few aberrations is a dangerous oversimplification. Marybeth Gasman, Forbes.com, 8 Sep. 2025 See All Example Sentences for aberration
Recent Examples of Synonyms for aberration
Noun
  • According to her death certificate, Joan died from dementia.
    Virginia Chamlee, PEOPLE, 10 Oct. 2025
  • In a cruel irony, the chaos of homelessness that forces people to prioritize survival, combined with health conditions such as physical disabilities, dementia or serious mental illness, often collude to prevent patients from engaging with the very systems that could end their homelessness.
    Sarah Stella, The Conversation, 9 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • The Barclays report signals that the wave of CEO departures is not a fleeting anomaly but the new normal, propelled by emboldened activists and increasingly impatient boards.
    Nick Lichtenberg, Fortune, 8 Oct. 2025
  • The ocean anomaly has also been associated with extreme weather events, including droughts; warmer ocean temperatures can also generally help hurricanes develop more rapidly, and exacerbate fires, says Pastelok.
    Simmone Shah, Time, 8 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • Working with Chhaya clients who were facing foreclosure, Mamdani got an intimate look at the little insanities of the city’s housing crisis.
    Eric Lach, New Yorker, 9 Oct. 2025
  • Exantus was found not guilty of murder by reason of insanity but was sentenced for assault in the 2015 case involving 6-year-old Logan Tipton.
    Leo Bertucci, Louisville Courier Journal, 9 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • The previous head-coaching exception window was 30 days which began the day after the coaching change.
    Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 8 Oct. 2025
  • Fortunately, this one from Kate Spade is the exception.
    Melanie Fincher, Southern Living, 7 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • Like a faulty fire hydrant, or a vacuum cleaner whizzing up and down with the uncontrollable hysteria of a feral raccoon, our directive was to suck up as many clicks as possible through every angle imaginable.
    Kieran Press-Reynolds, Pitchfork, 8 Oct. 2025
  • In the business classic Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds, Charles Mackay examined the psychology of crowd behavior and mass hysteria throughout history, from the Dutch Tulip Mania of the 1630s to humanity’s historical obsession with transmuting base metals into gold.
    Jeffrey Sonnenfeld, Fortune, 7 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • So when looking at the heart with a sonogram, a doctor can determine if the heart has the typical blockage that is associated with a heart attack or not, and if the abnormality will return to normal.
    Audrey Noble, Vogue, 8 Oct. 2025
  • Their first round of genetic testing found no abnormalities, which gave them hope that things would ultimately be okay.
    Angela Andaloro, PEOPLE, 7 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • Ed Gein died in 1984 from cancer Following his arrest, Gein was diagnosed with schizophrenia, per A&E, and declared mentally unfit for trial, according to the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel.
    Aya Al-Hakim, PEOPLE, 6 Oct. 2025
  • He was diagnosed with schizophrenia after he was taken into custody.
    Lea Veloso, StyleCaster, 6 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • For him, the rarity of the syndrome was the hardest part to process.
    Jordan Greene, PEOPLE, 2 Oct. 2025
  • West is a rarity as the first star high school quarterback with NHL potential in more than a decade.
    Scott Powers, New York Times, 30 Sep. 2025

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“Aberration.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/aberration. Accessed 12 Oct. 2025.

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