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aberration

noun as in state of abnormality

noun as in different from that expected

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“Those unresolved mental health challenges led defendant to convey the fake threat as an excuse to get out of an ongoing meeting. That decision was misguided and dangerous, but it was also an aberration.”

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It has been one of its recurring features, not an aberration but a persistent force, destructive and yet oddly creative, producing new boundaries and new regimes.

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To them, even after eight years of experience, the president is some type of sui generis figure, an aberration in American politics and culture.

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“The rosters are the same, but the minutes and who’s getting them have maybe changed a little bit. Our start of the season was more of an aberration than where we’re at now,” Kuntz said.

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Today, the Emergency is remembered in India as a brief authoritarian interlude - an aberration.

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