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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According to the Cleveland Clinic, Epilepsy is a neurological disorder that can trigger unexpected seizures, caused by temporary abnormal electrical conditions in the brain.—
Meredith Kile,
People.com,
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Not an abnormal deviation from traditional Israeli-Palestinian dynamics but their culmination.—
Hussein Agha,
New Yorker,
22 Aug. 2025
Adjective
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Stories abound in folklore of the unnatural taking the place of the natural.—
Adam Verner
September 3,
Literary Hub,
3 Sep. 2025
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Changing these molecules would create an unnatural mirror image of a cell, as different as your right hand from your left.—
N'dea Yancey-Bragg,
USA Today,
1 Sep. 2025
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“Aberrational.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/aberrational. Accessed 9 Sep. 2025.
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