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[out-lahy-er]

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noun

a person or thing that lies outside.

a person residing outside the place of his or her business, duty, etc.

Geology. a part of a formation left detached through the removal of surrounding parts by erosion.

Origin:
1600–10; out- + lier

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In theory, an outlier is something that is so unlikely that it is thought to be unrepresentative of the rest of the sample.

The normal outcome is the province of science, which does not overlap with the miraculous, which it might call an outlier.

Japan, where prices are now falling even faster than a year ago, remains an outlier.

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In theory, an outlier is something that is so unlikely that it is thought to be unrepresentative of the rest of the sample.

The normal outcome is the province of science, which does not overlap with the miraculous, which it might call an outlier.

Japan, where prices are now falling even faster than a year ago, remains an outlier.

And that would certainly provide evidence that we're an outlier and therefore there must be more universes.

In my experience, when it comes to home media centers, there are two main camps and an outlier.

And if you did, you could learn something from the outlier than could use to help everyone else.

France, one of the world's strongest economies, continues as an anti-capitalist outlier.

The cod's recovery is hopeful but it's safest to treat it as an outlier.

But no doctor or research study has ever told my father that he couldn't be the outlier.

Which therefore makes the behavior a statistical outlier.

But the theory of outlier events doesn't actually say that they cannot eventually be predicted.

America is an outlier among the rich countries in terms of its religiosity, patriotism and traditionalism.

Africa is still something of a demographic outlier compared with the rest of the developing world.

After two decades on the bench, he remains a legal outlier even on the.

Given enough opportunities, outlier anomalies-even seeming miracles-will occasionally happen.

Then there were the outlier cases, of people who lived elsewhere.

Our theory is that these consolidated recommendations help to reduce the negative impact of outlier predictions.

It can focus instead on fixing loopholes and finding ways to close outlier banks that lose far more money than the average.

The orthodoxy simply cannot account for or suggest responses to sustained outlier behavior.

Consumers have backed off cheap, over-oaked chardonnays and embraced outlier varietals that offer better quality for the money.

The matriarchal tuareg have a tradition of making the men wear veils once they become mature, an interesting outlier.

Krosnick's finding is but one indicator and an outlier at that.

But this year is what is known in business schools as an outlier.

Citigroup is also an outlier among its peers that have reported so far.

Jones may no longer be the outlier he was six years ago.

It would be a mistake to alter the law, he said, simply to deal with a small number of outlier products.

Arkansas has been something of a political outlier over the last few decades.

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outlier (ˈaʊtˌlaɪə)

—n
1.	an outcrop of rocks that is entirely surrounded by older rocks
2.	a person, thing, or part situated away from a main or related body
3.	a person who lives away from his place of work, duty, etc
4.	statistics See scatter diagram a point in a sample widely separated from the main cluster of points in the sample

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outlier

c.1600, stone quarried ans removed but left unused, from out + lie (v.2). Transf. meaning "outsider" is recorded from 1680s; "anything detached from its main body" is from 1849; geological sense is from 1833.

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