How to Use outlier in a Sentence

outlier

noun
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  • And what Auburn fans want to hear is this: Thorne isn’t an outlier.
    — Ainslie Lee | [email protected], al, 21 Aug. 2023
  • To be clear, Mr. Card is an outlier in more ways than one.
    — Dave Philipps, New York Times, 8 Mar. 2024
  • The first is a solitary outlier: 2, the only even prime.
    — Quanta Magazine, 1 Nov. 2023
  • The Phoenix Suns' Terrence Ross is an outlier who prefers the sounds of crunchy and speedy guitar shreds.
    — Dana Scott, The Arizona Republic, 18 Apr. 2023
  • But there is at least one outlier: the elusive kaan kaan wu.
    — Rudy Lee, New York Times, 17 Oct. 2023
  • There is an outlier: Grayscale has a fee of 1.5 percent.
    — Tara Siegel Bernard, New York Times, 19 Jan. 2024
  • In terms of the microcosm that was this series against a strong Mariners team, the loss was an outlier.
    — Sarah Valenzuela, Los Angeles Times, 19 Sep. 2022
  • And whatever caveats, whether that is an outlier, that's a tough one to spin.
    — ABC News, 24 Sep. 2023
  • In that regard, Brown, Dartmouth, and Yale look like outliers.
    — Ira Porter, The Christian Science Monitor, 14 Mar. 2024
  • Across the avenue, these outliers were echoed by a trio of Citroen Traction Avant sedans.
    — Brett Berk, The Hollywood Reporter, 9 Oct. 2024
  • Many locals hope this year could still prove to be an outlier.
    — Rick Noack, Washington Post, 12 Jan. 2023
  • But was that outlier or could the Cowboys trust that to continue in 2024?
    — Clarence E. Hill Jr., Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 2 Mar. 2024
  • The primary outlier, as is often the case, is the space bar, which makes a high-pitched, plastic snap noise on the way down and up.
    — Scharon Harding, Ars Technica, 16 Aug. 2022
  • There are outliers on the market, but most air fryers fall within this range.
    — Caroline Thomason, Health, 9 Mar. 2023
  • But President Ford’s path to the White House was an outlier.
    — Joseph W. Sullivan, National Review, 27 July 2022
  • The arrest of Williams for alleged assault with a firearm isn’t an outlier.
    — Joseph Goodman | [email protected], al, 16 Apr. 2023
  • The outliers are the North Central region of the country with equal chances compared to previous years.
    — Marina Johnson, Detroit Free Press, 21 Apr. 2023
  • In the world of reggaetón, Miko is an outlier: blonde, petite and openly gay.
    — Leila Cobo, Billboard, 19 July 2024
  • Some outliers might offer a hint for how to improve things, Laborde says.
    — WIRED, 6 Nov. 2023
  • In some ways, Starer, then 66 years old, was an outlier.
    — Hanna Krueger, BostonGlobe.com, 7 Jan. 2023
  • But prior to the past six weeks, 2024 was a bit of an outlier in being a sleepy election cycle.
    — Axios, 28 July 2024
  • Hope was one of 38 hosts who went on a killing spree, then took her own life, after contact with an outlier.
    — Andrew Walsh, EW.com, 25 July 2022
  • But that was an outlier in an otherwise easy, breezy and well-paced awards show.
    — Anne Branigin, Washington Post, 16 Jan. 2024
  • This year’s New York City Ballet fall gala was an outlier.
    — Gia Kourlas, New York Times, 6 Oct. 2023
  • The bill failed on party lines, with the three Democrats who voted no saying the Air Force case was an extreme outlier.
    — Karin Brulliard, Washington Post, 23 July 2023
  • Covid can’t be ruled out either as an outlier that could affect the price of airfare.
    — Jacob Passy, WSJ, 26 July 2022
  • But Levy told The Courant that the Fabrizio survey is accurate and is not an outlier.
    — Christopher Keating, Hartford Courant, 2 Nov. 2022
  • The one outlier will be the Oregon Coast where continued onshore flow will keep clouds and drizzle in the forecast for at least the first part of the week.
    — oregonlive, 26 June 2023
  • The assertion by the tour guide was not a hyperbolic outlier.
    — Joseph Bien-Kahn, Rolling Stone, 3 Nov. 2024
  • Queen’s 1973 eponymous debut album has always been an outlier in the group’s catalog.
    — Jem Aswad, Variety, 25 Oct. 2024

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