How to Use aberrant in a Sentence

aberrant

adjective
  • That’s an aberrant message from any president, let alone a wartime one.
    — Los Angeles Times, 19 Apr. 2020
  • 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
  • Cora is viewed as something monstrous and aberrant by the white people around her.
    — Angelica Jade Bastién, Vulture, 21 May 2021
  • This leads to aberrant firing of the brain’s nerve cells and seizure activity.
    — Jenny Wilkerson, chicagotribune.com, 12 Sep. 2019
  • Yet for disabled women, that norm is often treated as aberrant.
    — Los Angeles Times, 30 Sep. 2021
  • The notion is that people with autism can learn to recalibrate their aberrant brain rhythms.
    — Hannah Furfaro, Slate Magazine, 10 Oct. 2017
  • Last fall, an aberrant chocolate chip cookie turned up in my Instagram feed.
    — Julia Moskin, New York Times, 29 Sep. 2017
  • Making the aberrant choice stand out all the more was that Season 2 didn’t get to finish on its own terms.
    — Ben Travers, IndieWire, 30 May 2026
  • One of those aberrant members was Rhodes himself, Miller has argued.
    — James Brooks, Anchorage Daily News, 18 Dec. 2022
  • More recently, though, he’s been following through, no matter how aberrant his ideas.
    — David A. Graham, The Atlantic, 20 Jan. 2026
  • 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
  • These trail blazers are slowly normalizing what never should have been made aberrant.
    — Jill Gleeson, Good Housekeeping, 5 Oct. 2018
  • There were few signs of aberrant mortality or violence.
    — Alex Ross, New Yorker, 24 Nov. 2025
  • Rleigh believes much of Broshears’s aberrant behavior stemmed from a trauma early in his life.
    — Eric Markowitz, Newsweek, 25 Jan. 2018
  • Cancer cells are normal cells that have picked up aberrant genetic messages to start dividing out of control.
    — Alice Park, Time, 6 Oct. 2022
  • This aberrant version of Stockholm syndrome abandons any moral basis.
    — Armond White, National Review, 28 Dec. 2022
  • 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
  • When considered across the years of data, 2021 is truly aberrant.
    — Roger Valdez, Forbes, 5 Oct. 2022
  • In both diseases, a genetic mutation allows an aberrant protein to run amok and cause damage.
    — WIRED, 23 Sep. 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
  • Mehta said the case reflected aberrant behavior that continues to tear at the country's fabric.
    — Bart Jansen, USA TODAY, 1 Sep. 2022
  • 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
  • In the course of regular science workers often ignore aberrant results and seek out positive ones.
    — Razib Khan, Discover Magazine, 2 May 2011
  • When creating a notable renovation on an otherwise dull block, isn’t there a danger of the home looking a bit aberrant?
    — R. Daniel Foster, latimes.com, 22 June 2018
  • So her aberrant behavior was anxiety-driven?
    — Anne Thompson, IndieWire, 17 Oct. 2025
  • Butler speculated that this could point to an aberrant immune response injuring the liver rather than the virus itself.
    — Beth Mole, Ars Technica, 6 May 2022
  • And so, to this day nobody really knows how aberrant the Weston-Wellesley cluster is.
    — Dan Hurley, Discover Magazine, 19 Aug. 2010

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