aberration
Example Sentences
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His memorandum wasn’t an aberration but standard operating procedure.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 26, 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
I happen to have a legacy of former presidents and directors-counsels who have argued before the Supreme Court, so this was not a total aberration.
From Slate • Oct. 18, 2025
"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
As if to demonstrate that his questionable behavior in the presidential crisis of 1801 was no aberration, Burr repeated the pattern in 1804 during the campaign for governor of New York.
From "Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation" by Joseph J. Ellis
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