Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A wandering or deviating from the right way; especially, a deviation from truth or rectitude. Another form is aberrance.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun an aberrant state or condition.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a state or condition markedly different from the norm
Etymologies
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Examples
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One of these authors had been a resident under Kulko - As a resident conducting research with Kuklo, Andersen said he noticed "an aberrancy in typical research" that involved "discarding inconsistent findings which did not fit his hypothesis."
When the Mentor Goes Rogue aka TBTAM 2009
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And, the different ratios of men and women researchers in other fields would be the aberrancy.
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* Indeed, the relative paucity of genetic aberrancy in this leukemia may be one reason that this tumor is so easily felled by cytotoxic chemotherapy.
The Emperor of All Maladies Siddhartha Mukherjee 2010
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* Indeed, the relative paucity of genetic aberrancy in this leukemia may be one reason that this tumor is so easily felled by cytotoxic chemotherapy.
The Emperor of All Maladies Siddhartha Mukherjee 2010
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* Indeed, the relative paucity of genetic aberrancy in this leukemia may be one reason that this tumor is so easily felled by cytotoxic chemotherapy.
The Emperor of All Maladies Siddhartha Mukherjee 2010
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The tears that Lesley cries are the secretions of chance, of her blindness to its aberrancy, and they wash her adolescent eyes with stinging hindsight.
BREAKFAST WITH SOCRATES ROBERT ROWLAND SMITH 2010
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The tears that Lesley cries are the secretions of chance, of her blindness to its aberrancy, and they wash her adolescent eyes with stinging hindsight.
BREAKFAST WITH SOCRATES ROBERT ROWLAND SMITH 2010
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Because the majority of our population perceives addiction as an aberrancy that applies to “somebody else” (these days, itself a sure sign of hubris), only a very small percentage of Americans understand the 12 Step programs as a process.
The Structural Nuts and Bolts of The Great Leveling, Revisited 2009
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Because the majority of our population perceives addiction as an aberrancy that applies to “somebody else” (these days, itself a sure sign of hubris), only a very small percentage of Americans understand the 12 Step programs as a process.
The Structural Nuts and Bolts of The Great Leveling, Revisited 2009
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Initially, I gave this about 10 seconds of thought and marked it down as a polling aberrancy, something that will not happen.
Archive 2008-05-01 Michael Caddell 2008
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