aberration

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And for those who try to argue that these murders are an "aberration" - they need to confront the fact that there is in fact a real epidemic of police murder of Black youth in cities all across this country.

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  1. noun A deviation from the proper or expected course. See Synonyms at deviation.
  2. noun A departure from the normal or typical: events that were aberrations from the norm.
  3. noun Psychology A disorder or abnormal alteration in one's mental state.
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  • And for those who try to argue that these murders are an "aberration" - they need to confront the fact that there is in fact a real epidemic of police murder of Black youth in cities all across this country. —  Indybay newswire
  • For the present moment, however, this aberration was to be accepted cheerfully and humored after Daddy's own fashion. —  Under the Redwoods
  • Though Mixon's killing spree is a horrible aberration, his plight as anunemployed ex-felon isn't. —  feminist blogs
  • What caused an aberration was the Glass Stegall Act. " —  SeekingAlpha.com: Home Page
  • Horribly splotchy looking, and the chromatic aberration is an eye sore. —  Original Signal - Transmitting Digg
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  1. Latin aberrātiō, aberrātiōn-, diversion, from aberrātus, past participle of aberrāre, to go astray : ab-, away from; see ab-1 + errāre, to stray; see ers- in Indo-European roots.

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  1. from Latin aberratio(n-), from aberrare: see aberrate.
 

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