outsize
Example Sentences
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As a result, holiday-sales discounts that occur around Black Friday could have had an outsize effect on measured prices.
Companies know more than the government does about their businesses and can arrange internal deals to reap outsize low-taxed profits abroad.
Yet households are facing challenges on multiple fronts, a pressure point for the broader economy, given the outsize role of consumer spending.
That means that if the market sees more evidence pointing to outsize growth for value names, it will bid value stocks higher.
From Barron's
Though its circulation was as minuscule as its name suggests, it wielded outsize influence on Modernist writing.
From Los Angeles Times
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