outlier
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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
Some outlier cases of CEO security budgets are also cited here: Blackstone’s $12.6 million to protect Stephen Schwarzman, and Alphabet’s $8.8 million for Sundar Pichai.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 24, 2026
Zwick: Portillo is a bit of an outlier.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 21, 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
Terman didn’t understand what a real outlier was, and that’s a mistake we continue to make to this day.
From "Outliers" by Malcolm Gladwell
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Tampa Bay and Milwaukee have been the consistent outliers.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 3, 2026
But there were a few outliers suggesting the hurricane could head north into Southern California, raising concerns for the holiday weekend.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 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
The Apple TV show is set in a post-apocalyptic world in which most of humanity has been infected with an alien virus creating a peaceful hive mind, with only 13 outliers immune.
From Barron's ● Jul. 8, 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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