How to Use aberrant in a Sentence

aberrant

adjective
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  • Each one makes the present feel all that much more broken from the past and one’s presence, in turn, all the more aberrant.
    — Henry Grabar, Slate Magazine, 25 July 2017
  • Like beauty, that which is profane and aberrant lies in the minds of the beholder.
    — Kaitlyn Schwers and Bryan Lowry, kansascity, 19 Jan. 2018
  • This leads to aberrant firing of the brain’s nerve cells and seizure activity.
    — Jenny Wilkerson, chicagotribune.com, 12 Sep. 2019
  • Cora is viewed as something monstrous and aberrant by the white people around her.
    — Angelica Jade Bastién, Vulture, 21 May 2021
  • Trading in the Swedish krona shows no aberrant patterns.
    — Patricia Kowsmann, WSJ, 22 Dec. 2017
  • That’s an aberrant message from any president, let alone a wartime one.
    — Los Angeles Times, 19 Apr. 2020
  • One of those aberrant members was Rhodes himself, Miller has argued.
    — James Brooks, Anchorage Daily News, 18 Dec. 2022
  • Not to be seen as an aberrant comment, Lucero’s tweet adds to a growing pathetic and creepish track record.
    — Prem Thakker, The New Republic, 27 June 2023
  • The notion is that people with autism can learn to recalibrate their aberrant brain rhythms.
    — Hannah Furfaro, Slate Magazine, 10 Oct. 2017
  • But in Denmark, a nation that hadn’t seen a mass shooting since 2015, a mall shooting that killed three was a horrific and aberrant event.
    — Jill Filipovic, CNN, 19 July 2022
  • When considered across the years of data, 2021 is truly aberrant.
    — Roger Valdez, Forbes, 5 Oct. 2022
  • The protagonist’s viral video about the aberrant priest lands him in jail, causing the man’s gay identical twin to fight for justice.
    — Patrick Frater, Variety, 17 Oct. 2022
  • And in that beat, which often merits a front-page story, the beat is that President Trump is an aberrant president.
    — Callum Borchers, Washington Post, 5 Jan. 2018
  • Last fall, an aberrant chocolate chip cookie turned up in my Instagram feed.
    — Julia Moskin, New York Times, 29 Sep. 2017
  • But failed or aberrant immunity to the coronavirus is unlikely to be the norm.
    — Katherine J. Wu, The Atlantic, 24 Feb. 2021
  • Parents should have a say in what their children watch, but to deny them movies like this one is to give them the false impression that lust is aberrant, even nonexistent.
    — Shirley Li, The Atlantic, 25 Mar. 2022
  • An aberrant arm juts out from one side, sporting a Mickey Mouse glove glazed with Viennese florals.
    — Mimi Vu, New York Times, 6 Mar. 2018
  • That aberrant development is still with us via Dae-su’s flip phone and warped psychology — the guilt and anger that drive his unholy quest.
    — Armond White, National Review, 6 Sep. 2023
  • Yet for disabled women, that norm is often treated as aberrant.
    — Los Angeles Times, 30 Sep. 2021
  • But new parents who turn to search engines to understand the practice will find an aberrant—and dangerous—strain of thinking.
    — Renee Diresta, WIRED, 3 July 2018
  • Rleigh believes much of Broshears’s aberrant behavior stemmed from a trauma early in his life.
    — Eric Markowitz, Newsweek, 25 Jan. 2018
  • She’s a woman who does something very aberrant, very transgressive.
    — Mark Olsen, Los Angeles Times, 18 Jan. 2022
  • Though scientists have managed to come up with drugs that target and turn off aberrant BRAF signaling, cancer cells are clever.
    — Scientific American, 7 Apr. 2018
  • And so, to this day nobody really knows how aberrant the Weston-Wellesley cluster is.
    — Dan Hurley, Discover Magazine, 19 Aug. 2010
  • As the plot progresses, Casey immerses herself more and more in the videos of other players, and her own behavior becomes more and more aberrant.
    — David Sims, The Atlantic, 1 May 2022
  • Trey Davis: Dad's aberrant behavior has been in -- in the past has been chronicled quite extensively.
    — CBS News, 23 Jan. 2018
  • Trey Davis: Dad's aberrant behavior has been in -- in the past has been chronicled quite extensively.
    — CBS News, 13 May 2017
  • About half of melanoma patients have a gene called BRAF that contains a mutation producing an aberrant protein that drives tumor growth.
    — Jocelyn Kaiser, Science | AAAS, 27 Apr. 2020
  • Would society still view those acts as aberrant or criminal?
    — Mitchel Benson, sacbee, 31 Jan. 2018
  • Mehta said the case reflected aberrant behavior that continues to tear at the country's fabric.
    — Bart Jansen, USA TODAY, 1 Sep. 2022

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