How to Use aberrant in a Sentence

aberrant

adjective

• 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, 13 May 2017
• Trey Davis: Dad's aberrant behavior has been in -- in the past has been chronicled quite extensively.
  — CBS News, 23 Jan. 2018
• 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
• Origins of a cake obsession The greatness of these layered, ever-changing creations is uncanny, almost aberrant.
  — Bill Addison, Los Angeles Times, 23 Sep. 2023

Last Updated: 5 Sep 2024