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Aberration comes from Latin roots meaning what?

aberration

[ab-uh-ray-shuhn] / ˌæb Ι™ΛˆreΙͺ ΚƒΙ™n /




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In principle, these materials might even take advantage of the aberration effects described in the study.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 2, 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

“Creep” is like an aberration — it wasn’t really a Radiohead song.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 8, 2026

Around 20 activists entered a pool in a Brussels park on Wednesday to protest the absence of designated outdoor swimming areas in the Belgian capital, calling it an aberration in the midst of a heatwave.

From Barron's ● Jun. 25, 2026

Didn’t he say that it’s our culture which allows us to believe that violence is an aberration, and that the primitive warfare we choose to ignore is a manifestation of nature, biology, and instinct?

From "The Sense of Style" by Steven Pinker

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

If one filters out banal and impersonal events, most of what’s left are astounding aberrations and coincidences, and one’s mind begins to resemble the headlines of supermarket tabloids.

From "Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences" by John Allen Paulos




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