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
Again, the answer lies in the collective mindset of reality TV, whose fans are highly tolerant of aberrant behavior and quick to forgive missteps.
From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 19, 2025
He was detached from reality—in a manner that was even more extreme than his normally aberrant standards.
From Salon • Aug. 13, 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
“If we don’t distinguish our heartache—don’t at least attempt to work through it, you understand—it tends to pop up later. In different ways, aberrant ways.”
From "The Stars Beneath Our Feet" by David Barclay Moore
Vocabulary lists containing aberrant
Commonly Confused Words, List 1
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The Stars Beneath Our Feet
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Vocabulary Video Contest (2013) - List 1
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