aberration
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“Creep” is like an aberration — it wasn’t really a Radiohead song.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 8, 2026
When you have the conversation — after you’ve cooled off — you will know whether this was an aberration or part of a wider pattern of inappropriate behavior.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 1, 2026
His memorandum wasn’t an aberration but standard operating procedure.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 26, 2026
Investors will have to decide whether Kioxia’s disappointing report is an aberration or a sign of troubles ahead.
From Barron's ● Nov. 13, 2025
Over the course of her life, this day will be a slight, barely noticeable aberration.
From "Every Day" by David Levithan
While it enables useful wavelength-dependent effects, it also causes chromatic aberrations that become more severe as bandwidth increases.
From Science Daily ● Feb. 5, 2026
The fires, the floods, the cascading disasters, aren’t aberrations we’ll overcome and move past, but rather the conditions under which we now live, she said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 27, 2026
"Studies suggest these aberrations in the vortex are happening more often in a warming world, which favors more frequent winter extremes," said Francis.
From Barron's ● Jan. 22, 2026
And mind you, those guys on my road are anything but aberrations.
From Salon ● Oct. 13, 2025
But despite these aberrations he seemed to be accepted as an islander, simply because he had called Auntie Braxton “Trudy,” a name nobody had used for her since she was a young woman.
From "Jacob Have I Loved" by Katherine Paterson
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