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outlier

[aut-lahy-er] / ˈaʊtˌlaɪ ər /


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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

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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