outlier
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It was his legs, which makes Allen an outlier at this stage of his career.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 13, 2026
Questioning it on his race-simulation run late in the session, he was told his tyre wear did appear to be "an outlier" compared to that of Verstappen.
From BBC ● Oct. 2, 2026
Lest you think my opinion is an outlier, here’s what my predecessor Heather Havrilesky had to say about it when it first aired:
From Salon ● Oct. 1, 2026
A report by the Deutsche Bank Research Institute published in July found that the yen’s purchasing power had halved since 2012, making Japan an outlier in terms of the cheapness of its currency.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 8, 2026
He has become the public face of genius in American life, a celebrity outlier.
From "Outliers" by Malcolm Gladwell
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There are some outliers: India, for example, a nation where beef is not generally eaten, serves no Big Macs, so the equivalent is the Chicken Maharajah Mac.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 31, 2026
“I also think you have outliers of the party that sometimes suck all the oxygen out of the room and maybe derail that message.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 17, 2026
To say they were the outliers in the Scotland support in those moments would be putting it mildly.
From BBC ● Jun. 20, 2026
These are attempts to remove price outliers from other components of the index, Carson added in a LinkedIn post.
From Barron's ● Jun. 12, 2026
Let me give you one final example of the hidden opportunities that outliers benefit from.
From "Outliers" by Malcolm Gladwell
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