outlier
noun
something that lies outside the main body or group that it is a part of, such as a cow far from the rest of the herd, or a distant island belonging to a cluster of islands.
outliers
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pluralof outlier.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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Tampa Bay and Milwaukee have been the consistent outliers.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 3, 2026
There are some outliers: India, for example, a nation where beef is not generally eaten, serves no Big Macs, so the equivalent is the Chicken Maharajah Mac.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 31, 2026
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
Bloom says he has used a variety of approaches including accounting for distance, economic gravity, the size of the economy and selectively omitting potential outliers.
From BBC ● Jun. 23, 2026
All the outliers we’ve looked at so far were the beneficiaries of some kind of unusual opportunity.
From "Outliers" by Malcolm Gladwell
