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
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
It has been one of its recurring features, not an aberration but a persistent force, destructive and yet oddly creative, producing new boundaries and new regimes.
From Salon • Sep. 16, 2025
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
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