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aberrant

adjective as in not normal; varying from the usual

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At last, this aberrant set of back-to-back NBA seasons nears its ending, possibly a hopeful ending of good basketball and growing crowds.

If there’s any good news for the Twins in this, it’s that some of these performances have been so aberrant that they’ll probably even out a bit over the rest of the season.

Speaking of teams that could be looking to bounce back from an aberrant 2020, don’t be surprised if the Washington Mystics rise quickly in our Elo depending on how soon Elena Delle Donne comes back this season.

Ornithologists have referred to them as “aberrant falcons” and “a rather unimpressive lot,” with Falconidae’s so-called true falcons—including peregrines—hogging all the research.

It’s not hard to see how aberrant activity in these regions could contribute to symptoms of depression and anxiety.

Turmeric could have important abilities in healing and preventing brain damage—or this could be an aberrant finding.

Herman Cain: For the first time, he seemed to acknowledge that there is something aberrant about his candidacy.

In the apes and lemurs, on the contrary, the ground-dwellers are the aberrant forms, stray wanderers from the host.

These aberrant lines are much more common in the dramatic blank verse of the seventeenth century.

In the second case an aberrant artery was given off from the radial side of the brachial artery, again almost at its origin.

This aberrant artery anastomosed below the elbow-joint with the radial side of the radial artery.

There was another article on aberrant cases—a few strange little misbehaviors in classical syndromes.

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On this page you'll find 57 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to aberrant, such as: abnormal, deviant, psycho, weird, atypical, and bizarre.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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