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outlier

[aut-lahy-er] / ˈaʊtˌlaɪ ər /


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Questioning it on his race-simulation run late in the session, he was told his tyre wear did appear to be "an outlier" compared to that of Verstappen.

From BBC ● Oct. 2, 2026

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

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

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 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

They were now on level ground, and the road after much winding lay straight ahead through grass-land sprinkled with tall trees, outliers of the approaching woods.

From "The Fellowship of the Ring" by J.R.R. Tolkien



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