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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
For a lot of fans, One Hot Minute became an afterthought or an aberration.
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Ryan Reed, SPIN, 11 Sep. 2024
The soul-crushing void of solitary confinement and the constant threat of inmate-on-inmate violence appear not as aberrations but as tools on which the system tacitly relies.
—Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 11 Sep. 2024
But Holocaust survivor Charlotte Knobloch, president of the Jewish Community of Munich and Upper Bavaria, cautioned against labeling AfD’s successes as an aberration.
—Stefanie Dazio and Kirsten Grieshaber, Los Angeles Times, 2 Sep. 2024
For some conservative commentators, the feminist mainstreaming of the 2010s is a bizarre aberration, a refusal to acknowledge such self-evident truths as the fact that everyone likes a cute blonde with an ample bosom and a small dress.
—Constance Grady, Vox, 2 Mar. 2024
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Ryan Reed, SPIN, 11 Sep. 2024
The soul-crushing void of solitary confinement and the constant threat of inmate-on-inmate violence appear not as aberrations but as tools on which the system tacitly relies.
—Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 11 Sep. 2024
But Holocaust survivor Charlotte Knobloch, president of the Jewish Community of Munich and Upper Bavaria, cautioned against labeling AfD’s successes as an aberration.
—Stefanie Dazio and Kirsten Grieshaber, Los Angeles Times, 2 Sep. 2024
For some conservative commentators, the feminist mainstreaming of the 2010s is a bizarre aberration, a refusal to acknowledge such self-evident truths as the fact that everyone likes a cute blonde with an ample bosom and a small dress.
—Constance Grady, Vox, 2 Mar. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for aberration
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In February 2023, Bruce's family issued a statement saying that his condition had progressed into frontotemporal dementia, which affects one's ability to communicate through speech.Thomas G. Moukawsher, Newsweek, 29 Nov. 2024
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He has since been diagnosed with frontotemporal dementia (FTD), which is a progressive brain condition.Lisa Respers France, CNN, 29 Nov. 2024
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Rather, the half-century lull in female employment at the start of the 20th century was a historical anomaly.Tiana Lowe Doescher, Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government, 29 Nov. 2024
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Other offerings use specialized analytics tools to enhance workflows like auditing, allowing businesses to identify anomalies, trends, and fraud much more efficiently.William Mullane, USA TODAY, 28 Nov. 2024
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Cutting Medicare is insanity, especially with our high elderly population.Juan J. Arroyo, Rolling Stone, 24 Nov. 2024
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Everyone else gets to turn off the TV and forget about politics, which has reached this next-level, dark insanity.Gordon G. Chang, Newsweek, 31 Oct. 2024
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There was one notable exception, however: Wisconsin, where Democrats saw steep decline with Black voters.Domenico Montanaro, NPR, 22 Nov. 2024
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One exception taken from extensive personal experience: What comes out of the tap during our winter stays in Surfside Beach, Texas, is to be avoided.Michael Barnes, Austin American-Statesman, 22 Nov. 2024
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The first trailer for the upcoming Beatles 64 documentary chronicling the band’s arrival on U.S. shores six decades ago captures the hysteria that greeted John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison and Ringo Starr all those years ago.Gil Kaufman, Billboard, 18 Nov. 2024
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The big picture: Salem got its witchy reputation thanks to the very real 1692 hysteria in which Puritan townspeople turned against one another and executed 20 of their neighbors.Mike Deehan, Axios, 28 Oct. 2024
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Data analytics tools help process this information in real time, flag abnormalities, predict trends and offer actionable insights.Paul Kovalenko, Forbes, 6 Nov. 2024
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As noted above, this can occur with structural abnormalities in your GI tract caused by, for example, surgeries that leave behind scar tissue or diseases that affect the shape of your bowels (like diverticulosis, which creates pouches in the intestinal walls).Erica Sloan, SELF, 24 Oct. 2024
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Around the same time, his son Pablo started to show signs of schizophrenia; Pablo was institutionalized, eventually taking his own life in 1994.Carlos Valladares, ARTnews.com, 4 Oct. 2024
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The studies documented a significant reduction in overall symptoms of schizophrenia in the patients receiving Cobenfy compared to placebo.Alice Park, TIME, 27 Sep. 2024
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While Turkey Day game days are considered a rarity for some teams, the Lions and Giants will hit the holiday field for the 59th year in a row.Skyler Caruso, People.com, 28 Nov. 2024
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The brand will also bring a unique in-person shopping experience to Indy as Primark does not sell products online, operating solely as a brick-and-mortar store, a rarity in the age of rabid online shopping.Alysa Guffey, The Indianapolis Star, 27 Nov. 2024
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“Aberration.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/aberration. Accessed 6 Dec. 2024.
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