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 | [e-mail], 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
• Trump will be trying to make sure that was an outlier, not a trend.
  — David Faris, Newsweek, 4 Nov. 2024
• 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
• Covid-19 wasn’t the outlier, a once-in-a-century tragedy.
  — Melody Schreiber, The New Republic, 30 Apr. 2022
• 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
• The Celtics have done enough this season to make Game 1 seem like the outlier of these two performances.
  — Adam Himmelsbach, BostonGlobe.com, 4 May 2022
• 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
• But even on the national level, Texas does not seem to be that much of an outlier.
  — Harry Enten, CNN, 5 Mar. 2022
• The arrest of Williams for alleged assault with a firearm isn’t an outlier.
  — Joseph Goodman | [e-mail], al, 16 Apr. 2023
• In all but one of those seasons, the Dodgers have been a top-five team in terms of total payroll, with 2023 being the outlier.
  — Tyler Small, Forbes, 22 Jan. 2025
• 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
• Did things get easier, or was that an outlier of a lucky break?
  — Gabriel Lopez, Los Angeles Times, 13 May 2022
• 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
• Or is Ederson just an outlier, essentially a statistical freak who is out on his own rather than part of the pack?
  — Nick Miller, The Athletic, 6 Feb. 2025

Last Updated: 26 Feb 2025