outsize
Example Sentences
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They exert an outsize role in determining mortgage-underwriting standards, and they are using that power to get condos, many of which are growing old, to set aside more money for physical upkeep.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 9, 2026
Meanwhile, the performance of a relatively small group of Big Tech stocks with massive market values — and outsize weightings in the S&P 500 and Nasdaq-100 — has hardly been uniform.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 1, 2026
Alphabet’s outsize profit gain has also helped put S&P 500 net profit margins on pace for new highs.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 26, 2026
Social media has played an outsize role in both the growing awareness of estrangement—or going “no contact,” in internet lingo—and the role of therapists in it.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 21, 2026
Jutta drags herself closer; she watches her brother with outsize eyes.
From "All the Light We Cannot See" by Anthony Doerr
