How to Use outlier in a Sentence

outlier

noun
  • And what Auburn fans want to hear is this: Thorne isn’t an outlier.
    Ainslie Lee | Alee@al.com, 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • There are outliers on the market, but most air fryers fall within this range.
    Caroline Thomason, Health, 9 Mar. 2023
  • The arrest of Williams for alleged assault with a firearm isn’t an outlier.
    Joseph Goodman | Jgoodman@al.com, 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
  • Some outliers might offer a hint for how to improve things, Laborde says.
    WIRED, 6 Nov. 2023
  • 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
  • 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 sad thing is, at this point, it can hardly be regarded as an outlier.
    The Editors, National Review, 16 Nov. 2023
  • The 131-foot superyacht was designed to be an outlier not only in the ISA fleet but in the wider industry.
    Rachel Cormack, Robb Report, 29 Mar. 2024
  • The survey may have been an outlier, but for DeSantis the bad news keeps coming.
    John Cassidy, The New Yorker, 24 July 2023
  • However, even among the cities that were likely governed well, some cities were still outliers.
    Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 6 Mar. 2023
  • The votes are tabulated, and a process known as winsorization is used to account for outliers — high and low — to smooth the data.
    Mark Kazlowski, Dallas News, 5 May 2023
  • Room and board is relatively similar across the state, with the Salt Lake City colleges the slight outliers in costs of living.
    Andy Larsen, The Salt Lake Tribune, 5 Aug. 2023
  • Yet the high volume of three-pointers that fueled Tatum’s big half — eight three-point attempts and five makes — were no outlier.
    Andrew Greif, Los Angeles Times, 23 Dec. 2023
  • Thailand is an outlier in Asia, where most countries have strict drug laws.
    Heather Chen, CNN, 29 Sep. 2023
  • But some outliers—like Birkin bag-maker Hermès—dodged what looks to be the industry’s new normal.
    Byprarthana Prakash, Fortune Europe, 10 Nov. 2023
  • The big question is whether Transsion will be able to hold on to this position, or whether 2023 will end up being an outlier.
    Jon Porter, The Verge, 1 Nov. 2023
  • Netflix, though, is an outlier, with no live sports streaming deals.
    Bychris Morris, Fortune, 20 Sep. 2023
  • This price of this Lake Drive home is an outlier for Milwaukee County.
    Journal Sentinel, 28 Feb. 2024
  • That provision has been latched onto by a few outliers in Congress.
    Steve H. Hanke, National Review, 17 Mar. 2023

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