War here wasn't a game or some temporary aberration, but the very condition of existence.

He saw the omission as a symptom of a temporary aberration.

Duke is absent, a temporary aberration, it would like to think.

"Perhaps it regards your present state as a temporary aberration," Cat said.

Are starships on the present scale just a temporary aberration?

Perhaps the new design would turn out to be a temporary aberration, and life would continue as normal.

London's financial stars can no longer pretend it is all a temporary aberration.

If I'd suffered a temporary aberration and it was a single slip, she would forgive me.

I consider it a temporary aberration on my part.