The Kolko case is no aberration, says lawyer Michael Lesher.
"It's an aberration," said Deputy Inspector Thomas H. Delahanty.
It's tempting to view 2013 as an aberration, says Hunt. "That year was an outlier.
"I knew that was an aberration," said Hanners, who was with Brown in New York, Detroit and Philadelphia.
"Volatility is the norm, not the aberration," said Lawrence J. Goldstein, president of the Petroleum Industry Research Foundation.
"One annulment could be seen as an aberration," said Simon Baxter, an antitrust lawyer in the Brussels office of Clifford Chance.
"What happened with 'Spider-Man' this weekend is, historically, an aberration," said David Davis, a box-office analyst for Houlihan, Lokey, Howard & Zukin, an investment banking firm.
"The Goldston and Sanders reports were significant but an aberration," said Flint Taylor, a lawyer who represents several of Mr. Burge's accusers.
But in the centuries-long history of newspapers they were an aberration, says Douglas McCabe of Enders Analysis, who tracks British media.
The Food and Drug Administration and the Agriculture Department's Food Safety and Inspection Service have been jointly investigating the matter but have turned up no evidence that the shipment was anything but an aberration, said Carol Blake, an inspection agency spokeswoman.
