aberrant
Example Sentences
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Let’s stop treating working into your 60s and beyond as aberrant, and start planning for a workforce with 15 or more years of healthy cognition after traditional retirement age.
From MarketWatch • May 7, 2026
The implication that aberrant personality disorders might not be the exclusive purview of humans.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 17, 2026
Judge Alan Schneider said during Monday's hearing that his behaviour when he was arrested was "aberrant from his normal conduct", his lawyer Christy O'Connor told BBC News after the hearing.
From BBC • Apr. 6, 2026
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
“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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