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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
  • The 83-year-old man’s family believes Theo is suffering from the beginning stages of undiagnosed dementia, according to WTVR.
    Sam Gillette, PEOPLE, 17 Oct. 2025
  • People between 50 and 60 years old who got six hours of sleep nightly had a higher risk of dementia later in life, while older adults who didn't sleep well at night, but napped often, had a greater risk of dying within the next five years.
    Sherri Gordon, Health, 17 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • The potassium anomaly The scientists looked at very old and deep rocks.
    Mrigakshi Dixit, Interesting Engineering, 14 Oct. 2025
  • Human rights in Russia will suffer if the surveillance of dissident activity ramps up, and those seeking alternative means of communicating will stand out even more as regime-threatening anomalies.
    Justin Sherman, The Atlantic, 11 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • Ed brings great depth and heart to the man in charge of safety for this massive jump, an island of reason in a sea of insanity.
    Matt Grobar, Deadline, 14 Oct. 2025
  • At trial, Crawford's attorneys acknowledged his guilt to lay the groundwork for an insanity defense, even though that's not how Crawford wanted to handle the case, according to reporting by the Mississippi Clarion Ledger, part of the USA TODAY Network.
    Amanda Lee Myers, USA Today, 13 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • The odds of a hurricane landfall in the US really dwindle at the end of October and into November, but there have been notable late-season exceptions.
    Mary Gilbert, CNN Money, 21 Oct. 2025
  • Walmart is one of the exceptions that proves the rule.
    Mark Simon, Fortune, 21 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • As fear and prejudice take hold, Lidia and her family must navigate the growing hysteria surrounding queerness, disease and desire in a deeply patriarchal society.
    Andreas Wiseman, Deadline, 15 Oct. 2025
  • 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
Noun
  • According to the zoo, Maka was diagnosed with chromosomal abnormalities at just 5 years old but managed to thrive with the help of wildlife health and care teams.
    Saleen Martin, USA Today, 14 Oct. 2025
  • The clinical trial will also evaluate whether the AI tool over-identifies abnormalities that turn out not to be cancer, also known as false positives.
    Madeline Heim, jsonline.com, 13 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • Watch the interview on YouTube and the clip about managing his schizophrenia below.
    Michael Saponara, Billboard, 20 Oct. 2025
  • Ellis has a history of schizophrenia, and her defense attorneys entered a plea of not guilty by reason of insanity, WKYC reported.
    Charna Flam, PEOPLE, 17 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • There is a rarity in this Blue Jays run.
    Mitch Bannon, New York Times, 19 Oct. 2025
  • The rarity of the Reagan-Thatcher relationship hasn’t been replicated, though some presidents have come close.
    Paul Bedard, The Washington Examiner, 17 Oct. 2025

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“Aberration.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/aberration. Accessed 22 Oct. 2025.

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