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Six example sentences with aberrant, each labelled with its topic.
One aberrant score in a thousand tests usually means a tired participant rather than a discovery worth writing up.
Psychology
The instrument logged one aberrant temperature at midnight, thirty degrees off every other reading, so the technicians replaced the sensor.
Science
Software flags aberrant transactions, so a card used in two cities within an hour triggers a call before anything clears.
Finance
His forty-point night was aberrant, a single hot evening in a season where he averaged eleven.
Basketball
The monitoring tool highlights aberrant response times, so a server that suddenly takes four seconds shows up in red.
Technology
One aberrant quarter of growth after a hurricane reflects rebuilding, not a real change in the region's economy.
Economics
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