outlier

European football looks like an outlier, struggling to gain enough support to topple him.

From BBC ● Aug. 6, 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So many states had repealed so many firearm regulations that the District of Columbia’s stringent handgun ban looked like a true outlier.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

If, after all, he was an outlier, someone with a predisposition to dis-traction, it would be worth knowing.

From "A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age" by Matt Richtel

“I also think you have outliers of the party that sometimes suck all the oxygen out of the room and maybe derail that message.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 17, 2026

“Barring a miracle, the 2020s will prove to be what their ominous opening foreshadowed: a lost decade-not just for a couple of outliers, but for dozens of developing economies,” Gill said.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 11, 2026

There are a few real outliers on xPTS, the most notable being Sunderland, who would have been relegated had they earned the amount of points they 'should' have done, according to the data.

From BBC ● May 26, 2026

Warsh has said he prefers alternative inflation measures like trimmed mean and median PCE, which strip out outliers and tend to run cooler than the headline figures.

From Barron's ● May 14, 2026

All the outliers we’ve looked at so far were the beneficiaries of some kind of unusual opportunity.

From "Outliers" by Malcolm Gladwell