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aberration

[ab-uh-rey-shuhn] / ˌæb əˈreɪ ʃən /




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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

This is the question Tottenham's board members will be asking themselves after Tudor's latest aberration: are the players responding to the manager's methods?

From BBC • Mar. 10, 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

“It’s so dried out it’s hard to say. It may be an aberration, it may be nothing.”

From "The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate" by Jacqueline Kelly




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