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outlier

[out-lahy-er] / ˈaʊtˌlaɪ ər /


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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So many states had repealed so many firearm regulations that the District of Columbia’s stringent handgun ban looked like a true outlier.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

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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