How to Use aberration in a Sentence

aberration

noun
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  • For her, such a low grade on an exam was an aberration.
  • If the dogs’ paws have any aberrations or cuts, the salts will burn.
    — John Surico, New York Times, 1 Feb. 2018
  • Is this an aberration or the start of an alarming trend?
    — John Talty | Jtalty@al.com, al, 11 Nov. 2020
  • Whether this was an aberration or the norm remains to be seen.
    — Rob Reischel, Forbes, 3 Oct. 2021
  • The data over the past month shows that’s not an aberration.
    — Condé Nast Traveler, 23 Apr. 2020
  • And all of these things are a trend, not a one-game aberration.
    — Scott Ostler, San Francisco Chronicle, 29 Oct. 2017
  • This is their chance to prove that game wasn’t an aberration.
    — Ryan Connors, ajc, 8 Sep. 2017
  • Graves called the high volume of turnovers an aberration.
    — James Crepea | The Oregonian/oregonlive, oregonlive, 21 Nov. 2021
  • The Bears have to hope that was more of an aberration than anything else.
    — Brad Biggs, chicagotribune.com, 30 Sep. 2020
  • Was this bigger role a one-game aberration or a sign of things to come?
    — Chris Fedor, cleveland, 11 Nov. 2021
  • Was that last Hawkeyes win an aberration from the three-point line?
    — Marcus Fuller, Star Tribune, 10 Jan. 2021
  • The tracking of the Wildfire charges were not an aberration.
    — Alexandra Kukulka, chicagotribune.com, 25 June 2018
  • By themselves, the home runs could be viewed as an aberration.
    — Times Staff Reports, latimes.com, 24 Oct. 2017
  • For me, this season is an aberration of some of the past seasons.
    — Jordan Taliha McDonald, Vulture, 7 Apr. 2022
  • But this was likely a one-year aberration to get the books in order.
    — Ben Volin, BostonGlobe.com, 23 Feb. 2021
  • In other words, this may be an aberration rather than a new trend.
    — Jason L. Riley, WSJ, 15 June 2021
  • The good court of the postwar period was an aberration.
    — Ian MacDougall, Harper’s Magazine , 28 Sep. 2022
  • Are his most recent three games an aberration, or a sign of his progress?
    — Scott Ostler, San Francisco Chronicle, 6 Mar. 2022
  • Is this a late-life aberration, or can the tropism be traced to a deeper angst that was missed in its time?
    — The New Yorker, 18 Apr. 2022
  • The election of Moore was not an aberration but part of a long-running trend.
    — Matthew Continetti, National Review, 30 Sep. 2017
  • The season is going to be an aberration no matter what.
    — Paul Daugherty, Cincinnati.com, 4 May 2020
  • But since then, the team has done an admirable job of making that game look like an aberration.
    — Sarah McLellan, Star Tribune, 16 Apr. 2021
  • The sample size is small, so this is perhaps an aberration.
    — David Woods, The Indianapolis Star, 26 Oct. 2021
  • The hope is that Sunday’s success was a sign of things to come, and not just an aberration.
    — Omar Kelly, sun-sentinel.com, 21 Dec. 2020
  • And that year wasn't an aberration, but rather the start of a long dry spell for country/pop crossover.
    — Paul Grein, Billboard, 10 Sep. 2019
  • Spears’s plight should not be viewed as an aberration because of her celebrity.
    — Michael Longley, The New Yorker, 9 Aug. 2021
  • Maybe this is an aberration and maybe next week at home Aaron Rodgers will be great.
    — Mike Hart, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 15 Sep. 2021
  • So, was that brickfest trio of games an aberration or an area of concern?
    — Eric Walden, The Salt Lake Tribune, 6 Aug. 2020
  • Is this just an aberration, or does this portend something for the future?
    — Washington Post, 21 Nov. 2020
  • But those situations are an aberration and not the norm.
    — Mike Bianchi, orlandosentinel.com, 8 Sep. 2019

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