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How to use the word aberration in a Sentence?

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I believe the court gave full consideration of the conduct charged and Mr. Scaglione’s background and took into consideration that this conduct was very much an aberration.

William Dimitri

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

We need to live in an America where January 6th is an aberration and will never happen again, and I hope that people join me in that belief no matter what their political leanings are.

Andy Kim

Found on CNN
2 years ago

This case is not an aberration but rather is part of a pattern of the Islamic Republic’s terrorism in Europe and around the world.

Toby Dershowitz at the Foundation

Found on Reuters
3 years ago

Bush was supposed to be an aberration and Obama a restoration, this idea of a reset seems a much tougher sell, especially since Trump's used Donald Trump lame-duck period to burn the house on the way out.

Tyson Barker

Found on CNN
3 years ago

In the old days when we saw a person with dreadlocks we thought it was weird and an aberration ... our mindset has changed, that's why we can have dreadlocks today, i started this hairstyle because a Carapinha salon is in my neighborhood. I think other neighborhoods around also want to have a typical Rastafarian salon, so if he keeps opening salons in other places it will be good.

Felicidade Langa

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

This bears watching; I would suspect the negative flows from high yields is more of a one-week aberration than the reversal of the current trend.

Pat Keon

Found on Reuters
5 years ago

Today's votes cap a week of something the American people haven't seen enough of in the last two years, my hope is that this past week isn't an aberration, but a turning point.

Chuck Schumer

Found on Reuters
5 years ago

I wouldn't call it an aberration, but I wouldn't call it common, either.

Roger Brown

Found on CNN
5 years ago

... After I stumbled through that disaster, I figured the damage was done, so I might as well continue the performance. I do n’t lead cavalry charges down Pennsylvania Avenue, but I ’ll make comments. And with the president we’ve got now, how can you not comment on this evil ? It’s an unbelievable aberration. And it’s not because of him, it’s what he represents that enormous core of self-seeking, discriminating, angry, racist people in the United States.

Ed Asner

Found on FOX News
5 years ago

I don’t think there is an attempt to glamorize gun violence on the show in any respect, the violence that we visit in the show is not judged to be a good thing. It’s judged to be an aberration and I think we – the characters who are on the moral side of the equation – view it that way. I don’t see that there’s any purpose in glamorizing gun violence.

Jeffry Wright

Found on FOX News
5 years ago

I don’t regard Louis Farrakhan as an aberration or anything, I regard him as an outstanding human being who commands a following of individuals who are learned and articulate and he plays a big role in the lives of thousands and thousands and thousands and thousands of people.

Danny Davis of Illinois

Found on FOX News
6 years ago

She’s not a saint. There is nothing good that can come out of praying to her, we have a lot of saints who represent the teaching of Jesus Christ. This is an aberration.

Sante Fe Archbiship John Wester

Found on FOX News
6 years ago

Is this influx of foreign capital temporary, an aberration, or is it part of a longer-term, sustainable trend? i would argue in a world that has so much uncertainty ... increasingly global investors are going to say Canada is a very good place to be.

Paul Morassutti

Found on Reuters
7 years ago

Evil deeds are the fruit of an evil heart. They are not an aberration from our true self but a revelation of it.”

Sinclair B. Ferguson (1948- )

added by meteorstorm
7 years ago

The problem is people try to look at Putin [ like ] a rational actor … Russian President Vladimir Putin considers the current situation as an aberration and their [ Russian ] empire to be the status quo – Russian President Vladimir Putin is just looking to return to that.

Jim Hanson

Found on FOX News
8 years ago

It's pretty clear production is being pulled back and finally we're seeing the impact of lower rig counts, there is potential for a bounce back in inventories if that was only a temporary aberration, but, of course, if the recent trend continues, we should see some support.

Michael McCarthy

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

One who shows signs of mental aberration is, inevitably, perhaps, but cruelly, shut off from familiar, thoughtless intercourse, partly excommunicated; his isolation is unwittingly proclaimed to him on every countenance by curiosity, indifference, aversion, or pity, and in so far as he is human enough to need free and equal communication and feel the lack of it, he suffers pain and loss of a kind and degree which others can only faintly imagine, and for the most part ignore.

Charles Cooley

added by anonymous
9 years ago

Every attempt to employ mathematical methods in the study of chemical questions must be considered profoundly irrational and contrary to the spirit of chemistry... If mathematical analysis should ever had prominent place in chemistry - an aberration, which is happily almost impossible - it would be a rapid and widespread degeneration of that science.

Auguste Comte, Philosophie Positive (1830)

added by anonymous
13 years ago

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