outlier
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Zwick: Portillo is a bit of an outlier.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 21, 2026
It was a personal outlier as well in Lauer’s time with the Dodgers.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 2, 2026
Beverly Hills High spent $4.8 million on its apparatus in a single fiscal year, and it’s less an outlier than a preview of what the vendors want everywhere.
From Slate ● 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
In many ways, Kia was the outlier of our family.
From "Americanized" by Sara Saedi
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But the few strong illustrations and even fewer high-quality paintings and sculptures are bracing outliers amid a sea of mostly 19th- and 20th-century melodramatic, sentimental and patriotic illustration.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 16, 2026
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 inflation cycles vary and outliers and composition change over time.
From Barron's ● Jun. 12, 2026
Shooting in New York is a very interesting experience because you have all these outliers just watching and gawking.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 4, 2026
This is a book about outliers, about men and women who do things that are out of the ordinary.
From "Outliers" by Malcolm Gladwell
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