outlier

I know this as a novelist—one who often probes my own mind for outlier theories.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 13, 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So many states had repealed so many firearm regulations that the District of Columbia’s stringent handgun ban looked like a true outlier.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

“The L and C program is on an outlier island about a ten-minute boat ride away,” she said.

From "Glitch" by Laura Martin

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 if those age-defying performances were outliers, playing into your mid-40s and even early 50s may soon become, if not common, at least less unusual.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 15, 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

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

From "Outliers" by Malcolm Gladwell