How to Use outlier in a Sentence

outlier

noun
  • There are a few stark outliers.
    — Sean Nevin, NBC news, 24 Apr. 2026
  • What do teams do with outliers?
    — Ben Kamisar, NBC news, 23 Apr. 2026
  • There are, of course, some outliers.
    — Drew Pittock, USA Today, 7 June 2026
  • The Knicks do not look like outliers.
    — Kristian Winfield, New York Daily News, 24 Apr. 2026
  • But Sprunt says there are some outliers.
    — Brittney Melton, NPR, 3 Mar. 2026
  • Or is there room for an outlier?
    — Glenn Whipp, Los Angeles Times, 2 Mar. 2026
  • Janet is by no means an outlier.
    — Walter S. Dekeseredy, The Conversation, 25 Aug. 2025
  • Or was this year just an outlier?
    — Bryan Toporek, Forbes.com, 27 Aug. 2025
  • Now, there is no such thing as a field without its outliers.
    — Ann Marie Luft, The Orlando Sentinel, 14 May 2026
  • But what if these three are outliers and not the standard?
    — Gladys Louise Tyler, Forbes.com, 24 Jan. 2026
  • Be cautious of outliers on both ends.
    — Sharon Wu, USA Today, 23 Mar. 2026
  • Is one of these items an outlier?
    — Harvey Levine, San Diego Union-Tribune, 18 Feb. 2026
  • Those plays were outliers this season.
    — Troy Renck, Denver Post, 27 Oct. 2025
  • In a sea of cruise ships and tourists, where tchotchkes flow like wine, lies an outlier.
    — Peter Kelly, Travel + Leisure, 18 Aug. 2025
  • Is the winning bid an outlier or are the bids all very close?
    — Andrew Edgecliffe-Johnson, semafor.com, 3 Apr. 2026
  • Many locals hope this year could still prove to be an outlier.
    — Rick Noack, Washington Post, 12 Jan. 2023
  • But that kind of price tag isn’t a total outlier in the space.
    — Cathy Hackl, Forbes, 28 Feb. 2021
  • Trump will be trying to make sure that was an outlier, not a trend.
    — David Faris, Newsweek, 4 Nov. 2024
  • Those outliers made up a massive portion of all tows.
    — Ginny Monk, ProPublica, 27 Apr. 2026
  • College softball teams that win and have fun are not outliers.
    — Brian Hamilton, New York Times, 22 May 2025
  • Yet those breakdowns were outliers.
    — Joshua Kloke, New York Times, 2 June 2026
  • And there are always outliers on both ends of the spectrum.
    — Sam Khan Jr, New York Times, 5 Jan. 2026
  • There are a few outliers who maybe can live on mice, but that's very unusual.
    — Krystal Nurse, USA TODAY, 28 Feb. 2025
  • Yet if there are outliers that resist it, that story can't be the whole truth.
    — Eric Ries, Time, 28 May 2026
  • That March record wasn’t an outlier.
    — Hanna Wickes, Kansas City Star, 16 Apr. 2026
  • While those might be outliers, the mainstream is growing.
    — Beth Livesay, AJC.com, 26 June 2026
  • The outliers also packed a heavier punch.
    — New Atlas, 22 Oct. 2025
  • Even then, what Lee has done during his past six games would be an outlier.
    — Noah White, Miami Herald, 30 Dec. 2025
  • There are a couple of bear and bull outliers, but the stock has mostly hold ratings.
    — Catherine Brock, Forbes.com, 2 July 2026
  • The rare winners, the true outliers, get read out and fed back into the model.
    — Lutz Finger, Forbes.com, 25 May 2026

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