outsize
Example Sentences
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Donovan said the type of funding Airbnb is providing can have an outsize impact by unlocking significantly more funding for housing projects, but addressing the housing shortfall nationwide will take tens of billions of dollars.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 14, 2026
The outsize nature of the production invites overacting.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 11, 2026
Higher oil prices are the chief reason an outsize 0.4% increase is expected.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 9, 2026
But reading “Morning in Marin,” David Perlis’ history of the place and its outsize cultural influence for much of the 20th century, you get the sense it served as America’s leading countercultural way station.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 4, 2026
Now his legs and arms were so emaciated that I could see all the bones in them, and his knee and elbow joints looked outsize, with the flesh shrunk away.
From "Mountains Beyond Mountains" by Tracy Kidder and Michael French
