aberrant
Example Sentences
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"This is just an aberrant episode in an otherwise productive life," she said, according to the Reuters news agency.
From BBC • Aug. 27, 2025
Four dynamics are highlighted here: self-excuses, blame-shifting, gaslighting and normalizing aberrant behavior.
From Salon • Nov. 9, 2024
He hoped doing so might help him improve treatments for cardiac arrhythmias — aberrant rhythms of the heart — that can prove dangerous and even deadly.
From Los Angeles Times • May 20, 2024
Importantly, the researchers demonstrated that the stopwatch mechanism is switched "off" by many types of cancers, effectively allowing them to tolerate aberrant genomes that undergo longer and problematic mitoses.
From Science Daily • Mar. 28, 2024
The basset-hound data, Bateson argued, was either aberrant or inaccurate.
From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee
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