as in abnormal
departing from some accepted standard of what is normal
in wartime what was once regarded as clearly aberrational becomes the new norm
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Adjective
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Stray dogs aren’t an abnormal occurrence but Sierra had something most stray dogs didn’t.—
Garfield Hylton,
The Orlando Sentinel,
6 May 2026 -
Goenka said one signature of early cancer that the AI model was able to detect is abnormal cells in the pancreas that shelter and protect cancer from the body’s immune defenses.—
Aria Bendix,
NBC news,
2 May 2026
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With the house emptied of living (and costumed) guests, its furnishings, in all their liveliness, appear only to mask an unnatural torpor.—
Olivia Kan-Sperling,
Artforum,
2 May 2026
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The time was unnatural, sometime after midnight.—
Megan Feringa,
New York Times,
1 May 2026
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“Aberrational.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/aberrational. Accessed 11 May. 2026.
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