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Aberration comes from Latin roots meaning what?

aberration

[ab-uh-ray-shuhn] / ˌæb əˈreɪ ʃən /




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Wide receiver Davante Adams proved with his 195-yard, two-touchdown performance against the New York Giants that the Rams’ Week 1 loss was an aberration.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 22, 2026

At that speed, relativistic light aberration becomes important.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 2, 2026

On Wednesday, Prentice had called his alleged wrongdoing "an aberration" and vowed a thorough and transparent investigation, while insisting it should not be used "to cast aspersions" on other academics from ethnic minority backgrounds.

From Barron's ● Aug. 14, 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

Exasperated at being judged a psychological aberration, the apple descends into Flatland.

From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan

But we also want to move away from a cultural view that treats men as the default and women as aberrations, or at least variations on a male norm.

From Slate ● Nov. 2, 2026

It was expected these aberrations would cost Lewis a World Cup place, but McDermott kept faith – now is the time to reward that.

From BBC ● Oct. 28, 2026

If they detected any aberrations, they’d tweak the machines after the fact.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 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

It was one of those baffling aberrations in Ammu’s taste, a cloud of stiff yellow lace with tiny silver sequins and a bow on each shoulder.

From "The God of Small Things" by Arundhati Roy


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