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Aberration comes from Latin roots meaning what?

aberration

[ab-uh-rey-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

It is a race to 106 - and the more time elapses, the more chance Infantino can persuade his former allies this was just an aberration.

From BBC ● Aug. 1, 2026

The others can believe what they like, but I don’t believe for a second that this is the real August and the other an aberration.

From "Water for Elephants" by Sara Gruen

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

"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

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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