aberration
Example Sentences
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Most media coverage treated this as an unfortunate aberration in what is otherwise settled science.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 29, 2026
It’s tempting to see these developments as a victory, as the rule of law slowly reasserting itself over a deadly aberration in America’s social contract.
From Slate • Jan. 29, 2026
"Allowing millions of human beings to live -- and die -- victims of hunger is a collective failure, an ethical aberration, a historical sin," Leo said in a speech at the Rome-based UN agricultural agency.
From Barron's • Oct. 16, 2025
To them, even after eight years of experience, the president is some type of sui generis figure, an aberration in American politics and culture.
From Salon • Aug. 30, 2025
The Huygens brothers found a way to reduce chromatic aberration considerably by using a combination of two thin lenses in the eyepiece of a telescope, instead of one fat lens.
From "The Scientists" by John Gribbin
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