outlier
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London is an outlier with an average disposable income of more than £36,000 per head although there are very large variations between London's boroughs.
From BBC ● Aug. 21, 2026
Yet something inherent in the human psyche still pushes us fiercely toward the rabbit warrens of outlier theories.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 13, 2026
So many states had repealed so many firearm regulations that the District of Columbia’s stringent handgun ban looked like a true outlier.
From Slate ● Aug. 3, 2026
Perhaps the biggest outlier was Talarico’s lead among non-college-educated voters, who favored the Democrat by nine percentage points — 45% to 36%.
From Salon ● Jul. 29, 2026
If we want to understand the likelihood of his becoming a true outlier, we have to know a lot more about him than that.
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
But if those age-defying performances were outliers, playing into your mid-40s and even early 50s may soon become, if not common, at least less unusual.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 15, 2026
The Apple TV show is set in a post-apocalyptic world in which most of humanity has been infected with an alien virus creating a peaceful hive mind, with only 13 outliers immune.
From Barron's ● Jul. 8, 2026
To say they were the outliers in the Scotland support in those moments would be putting it mildly.
From BBC ● Jun. 20, 2026
My father's family, meanwhile, sprawled across Chicago’s broader South Side and included an array of great-aunts and third cousins, plus a few stray outliers whose blood connection remained cloudy.
From "Becoming" by Michelle Obama
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