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as in dementia
a serious mental disorder that prevents one from living a safe and normal life
Joan of Arc was certain the voices she had been hearing were not a manifestation of some sort of aberration
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as in anomaly
something that is different from what is ordinary or expected
there are some slight aberrations in the type due to the nature of old printing presses
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Recent Examples of aberration
Freeze was thankful for his opportunity to coach the Tigers, suggesting his final record there was an aberration from the rest of his career.
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Jordan Sigler, MSNBC Newsweek, 2 Dec. 2025
Their only bad performance came in a one-score loss to the Steelers; an aberration of a game defined by a season-high number of turnovers.
—Andrew Callahan, Boston Herald, 29 Nov. 2025
Here and there, artistic aberrations emerge in the motif.
—Literary Hub, 21 Nov. 2025
White Lotus was an aberration to that, where Mike [White, series creator] had all five or six scripts completed.
—Lauren Huff, Entertainment Weekly, 7 Nov. 2025
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Jordan Sigler, MSNBC Newsweek, 2 Dec. 2025
Their only bad performance came in a one-score loss to the Steelers; an aberration of a game defined by a season-high number of turnovers.
—Andrew Callahan, Boston Herald, 29 Nov. 2025
Here and there, artistic aberrations emerge in the motif.
—Literary Hub, 21 Nov. 2025
White Lotus was an aberration to that, where Mike [White, series creator] had all five or six scripts completed.
—Lauren Huff, Entertainment Weekly, 7 Nov. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for aberration
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Memory loss, cognitive decline, anxiety, sleep disruption, dementia and cardiovascular disease are all known risks of long-term alcohol use, as well as liver complications like fatty liver disease.—
Angelica Stabile,
FOXNews.com,
10 Jan. 2026
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In order to fully get away with the crimes, Alice faked having dementia, so no one would ever suspect her.—
Caroline Blair,
PEOPLE,
10 Jan. 2026
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That Mater Dei-Servite head-scratcher is one of a few anomalies in the rankings.—
Steve Fryer,
Oc Register,
16 Jan. 2026
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So don't compare today's rates against the anomalies of 2020 and 2021.—
Matt Richardson,
CBS News,
14 Jan. 2026
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She was found not guilty by reason of insanity in 2006 and was placed in a maximum-security psychiatric center in Texas, where she's resided ever since.—
Emily Blackwood,
PEOPLE,
10 Jan. 2026
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In addition, only 26% of defendants raising the insanity defense were found not guilty by reason of insanity.—
Martha Ross,
Mercury News,
9 Jan. 2026
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That type of big-moment success was more the exception than the rule, however, in a Chiefs defensive season defined by letdowns in late, game-changing moments.—
Jesse Newell,
New York Times,
7 Jan. 2026
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Smith maintained many of the gifts cited by Cannon fell under exceptions to the disclosure rules, including those governing charity event tickets and gifts for birthdays or holidays.—
Caelyn Pender,
Mercury News,
7 Jan. 2026
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Your mother’s people, her father had told her ominously, on more than one occasion, are prone to hysteria.—
Lizz Schumer,
PEOPLE,
8 Dec. 2025
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The hysteria about a superior race, the insistence that all would be well if one insidious group was purged—those doctrines had been entirely defeated.—
Joan Silber,
New Yorker,
30 Nov. 2025
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Two regional electric power companies said no abnormalities have been detected.—
Anthony Trotter,
ABC News,
6 Jan. 2026
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Pathologists will perform a necropsy on the mountain lions to check for abnormalities and neurological diseases like rabies and avian influenza.—
Marlene Lenthang,
NBC news,
2 Jan. 2026
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Howze, who has schizophrenia, was also able to escape the hospital following the incident, only to be return a few days later wearing a visitor’s pass with a fake name.—
Colleen Cronin,
Boston Herald,
12 Jan. 2026
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The film, adapted from a 2017 Los Angeles Times story about Hang by Frank Shyong, stars Lucy Liu as Irene, who is trying to keep her son Joe’s (Lawrence Shou) schizophrenia diagnosis secret from the other parents in her Asian American community because of a taboo around mental health issues.—
Olivia B. Waxman,
Time,
9 Jan. 2026
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Andermatt is also considered one of the most snow-sure destinations in the Alps—storms tend to stack up here, snow quality holds for weeks, and the season often stretches well into April, a growing rarity in Europe as lower-elevation resorts grapple with warming winters.—
Bailey Berg,
Condé Nast Traveler,
11 Jan. 2026
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What makes the mission's remains so special is their rarity.—
Andrea Margolis,
FOXNews.com,
11 Jan. 2026
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“Aberration.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/aberration. Accessed 16 Jan. 2026.
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