How to Use aberration in a Sentence

aberration

noun

• For her, such a low grade on an exam was an aberration.
• One losing season in a career loaded with Finals runs can be dismissed as an aberration.
  — Connor Letourneau, SFChronicle.com, 18 June 2020
• This is not to suggest that the US is an aberration in the global community.
  — Sarah Todd, Quartz, 19 Aug. 2020
• The Bushnell turned in a decent low-light score, but wowed testers with an aberration-free and extremely bright and contrasty image.
  — Andrew McKean, Outdoor Life, 18 Aug. 2020
• And their absence from the prairie is a manmade aberration from human encroachment and lost habitat, says Mike Madel.
  — Amy Grisak, Popular Mechanics, 3 July 2020
• The Bears insisted that last year's mediocrity and ineptitude was an aberration.
  — Nancy Armour, USA TODAY, 18 Mar. 2020
• Look past the slur accusations and the anger and it’s worth remembering this was an aberration for Garrett -- a mistake.
  — Dan Labbe, cleveland, 15 Feb. 2020
• The two years out of it afterward made the one season in the NCAA tournament look like an aberration.
  — Zach Osterman, Indianapolis Star, 5 Mar. 2020
• The nuclear family, as Brooks points out, was a historical aberration.
  — Laurie Penny, Wired, 18 June 2020
• Abstract expressionism is, as a movement in American art, an aberration.
  — Brian T. Allen, National Review, 22 Aug. 2020
• But the department’s refusal to share evidence of its own officers’ potential misconduct isn’t an aberration.
  — Eric Umansky, ProPublica, 17 Aug. 2020
• Judge Jeffrey White, who is presiding over the case for all six defendants, implied at her sentencing hearing that such leniency would be an aberration.
  — Nate Gartrell, The Mercury News, 31 July 2024
• That puts more scrutiny on economic reports this week as investors look for confirmation that Friday's jobs report was a true inflection point and not just an aberration.
  — CBS News, 8 June 2020
• More than two dozen of them, in interviews at events throughout Nevada, argued her fourth-place finish was an aberration, not a blow to the campaign’s core message that should force reflection or correction.
  — New York Times, 11 Mar. 2020
• Much of the world hopes 2020 was an aberration, not a trend.
  — Staff Report, NOLA.com, 23 Nov. 2020
• If the dogs’ paws have any aberrations or cuts, the salts will burn.
  — John Surico, New York Times, 1 Feb. 2018
• And all of these things are a trend, not a one-game aberration.
  — Scott Ostler, San Francisco Chronicle, 29 Oct. 2017
• Was that last Hawkeyes win an aberration from the three-point line?
  — Marcus Fuller, Star Tribune, 10 Jan. 2021
• The data over the past month shows that’s not an aberration.
  — Condé Nast Traveler, 23 Apr. 2020
• The Bears have to hope that was more of an aberration than anything else.
  — Brad Biggs, chicagotribune.com, 30 Sep. 2020
• To be a two-time All-Star says last year wasn't an aberration.
  — Jeff Sanders, sandiegouniontribune.com, 12 July 2018
• This is their chance to prove that game wasn’t an aberration.
  — Ryan Connors, ajc, 8 Sep. 2017
• Whether this was an aberration or the norm remains to be seen.
  — Rob Reischel, Forbes, 3 Oct. 2021
• Is this an aberration or the start of an alarming trend?
  — John Talty | [e-mail], al, 11 Nov. 2020
• Was this bigger role a one-game aberration or a sign of things to come?
  — Chris Fedor, cleveland, 11 Nov. 2021
• Aside from the aberration that was the 70s, it's been that way forever.
  — Shawn Windsor, Detroit Free Press, 5 July 2018
• The tracking of the Wildfire charges were not an aberration.
  — Alexandra Kukulka, chicagotribune.com, 25 June 2018
• The Dodgers had reason to hope Bellinger’s 2021 was an aberration.
  — Bill Shaikin, Los Angeles Times, 12 Oct. 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
• At the time, Ukraine hoped the long delay, whose ramifications are still being felt on the battlefield, was an aberration that did not reflect a lack of U.S. public support for the Ukrainian cause.
  — Laura King, Los Angeles Times, 17 July 2024

Last Updated: 19 Sep 2024