outlier
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That Canadian smoke wasn’t pretty, but it was an outlier.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 12, 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
It may seem like a weird career shift for Witkoff, but he’s such an outlier that the famously transactional Donald Trump treats him like an actual friend.
From Slate ● Jul. 24, 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
The outlier, in the end, is not an outlier at all.
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
“I also think you have outliers of the party that sometimes suck all the oxygen out of the room and maybe derail that message.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 17, 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
Since we know that outliers always have help along the way, can we sort through the ecology of Joe Flom and identify the conditions that helped create him?
From "Outliers" by Malcolm Gladwell
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