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Definition of outlier
1 : a person whose residence and place of business are at a distance His house was a place of refuge for outliers.
2 : something (such as a geological feature) that is situated away from or classed differently from a main or related body The island is an outlier on the southeast side of the archipelago.
3 : a statistical observation that is markedly different in value from the others of the sample Values that are outliers give disproportionate weight to larger over smaller values.
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Recent Examples of outlier from the Web
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These changes won't affect most of the lifer population, however and Louisiana will remain an outlier in doling out life-without-parole sentences.
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IHeartMedia, though, was an outlier, up 49 percent as investors grew more confident that their stock won't be wiped out by a bankruptcy.
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Whatever their purpose, the carvings seem to mark the skulls as outliers: Dozens of other skull fragments have been found at Göbekli Tepe with no sign of carving or cutting.
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But Thomas again stands as a crazy outlier, earning only $500,000 per Win Share based on his $6.3 million salary and 12.6 Win Shares.
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Now, bearing the gold and diamonds, the man who wasn’t supposed to be a star has a chance to show the Marlins that last season’s second half was an outlier.
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For example, the brutality of Johnson’s upbringing was no outlier.
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The 6th District is a demographic outlier in Georgia.
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Outliers like Old Louisville and Newburg are also in the mix.
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First Known Use of outlier
1677
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