outlier
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Beverly Hills High spent $4.8 million on its apparatus in a single fiscal year, and it’s less an outlier than a preview of what the vendors want everywhere.
From Slate ● Aug. 21, 2026
She's something of an outlier with this view.
From BBC ● Aug. 21, 2026
I know this as a novelist—one who often probes my own mind for outlier theories.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 13, 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
If we want to understand the likelihood of his becoming a true outlier, we have to know a lot more about him than that.
From "Outliers" by Malcolm Gladwell
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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
Fed officials already consult a range of gauges that exclude outliers, such as a plunge in wireless phone prices or a one-off tariff bump.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 31, 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
“In fact, most of our ancestors were in Erudite. There were a few Abnegation outliers, and one or two Candor, but the through line is fairly consistent.”
From "Allegiant" by Veronica Roth
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