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outlier

[aut-lahy-er] / ˈaʊtˌlaɪ ər /


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Lest you think my opinion is an outlier, here’s what my predecessor Heather Havrilesky had to say about it when it first aired:

From Salon ● Oct. 1, 2026

United is an outlier in my test because it outsources its service to Global Airport Concierge, which offers services at airports around the world.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 23, 2026

A report by the Deutsche Bank Research Institute published in July found that the yen’s purchasing power had halved since 2012, making Japan an outlier in terms of the cheapness of its currency.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 8, 2026

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

In this chapter, I want to try to dig deeper into why that’s the case by looking at the outlier in its purest and most distilled form—the genius.

From "Outliers" by Malcolm Gladwell

Tampa Bay and Milwaukee have been the consistent outliers.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 3, 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

To say they were the outliers in the Scotland support in those moments would be putting it mildly.

From BBC ● Jun. 20, 2026

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

From Barron's ● Jun. 12, 2026

The mutants, again, would prove crucial to these experiments: only the outliers could illuminate the nature of normal heredity.

From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee



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