outlier

That Canadian smoke wasn’t pretty, but it was an outlier.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 12, 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So many states had repealed so many firearm regulations that the District of Columbia’s stringent handgun ban looked like a true outlier.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

She endorsed the review as a necessary evolution of “a very important system that we benefit from here in California in a unique way,” while flagging what makes UC an outlier nationally.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 23, 2026

If, after all, he was an outlier, someone with a predisposition to dis-traction, it would be worth knowing.

From "A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age" by Matt Richtel

While some elaborate “living room” setups are evident, they are outliers, as many beachgoers simply use canopies to cover beach chairs, coolers and supplies.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 5, 2026

Bloom says he has used a variety of approaches including accounting for distance, economic gravity, the size of the economy and selectively omitting potential outliers.

From BBC ● Jun. 23, 2026

But inflation cycles vary and outliers and composition change over time.

From Barron's ● Jun. 12, 2026

The study didn’t give explanations for the outliers.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 12, 2026

But as is so often the case with outliers, buried in that setback was a golden opportunity.

From "Outliers" by Malcolm Gladwell