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

He was detached from reality—in a manner that was even more extreme than his normally aberrant standards.

From Salon • Aug. 13, 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

Variants in these same regions are often involved in genetic conditions, causing aberrant gene expression throughout development.

From Science Daily • Apr. 17, 2024

The basset-hound data, Bateson argued, was either aberrant or inaccurate.

From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee