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Meanings of outlier (outliers) in English

Extreme values.

Usage of outliers in English
1
Financials were the outliers, anchoring the market and steadying the major indices.
Reuters
2
All values obtained were included in the evaluation without correcting for outliers.
Pubmed
3
Cost and length-of-stay differences remained when outliers were excluded from the analysis.
Pubmed
4
Researchers have sought to determine whether such places are outliers or typical.
Wired
5
Was New Earth infested with bizarre cultural outliers centered on TerReForm installations?
Seveneves
6
A few outliers have been found, and interpreted as potential anthropic contamination.
Pubmed
7
There always have been hard throwers in baseball, but they were outliers.
Chicago sun times
8
On a bell curve, the timid and the reckless are the outliers.
Wired
9
Strip away the outliers and most bunch around 400 pence per share.
Reuters
10
The two age groups only had one out of six outliers in common.
Pubmed
11
He said in every negotiation process there would always be outliers.
Radio NZ
12
Now let me point out the three outliers in this plot.
Wired
13
They passed outliers of the attack: a burst wooden chest, spilled trampled clothes.
Assail
14
Unity and Svenya are outliers, but phantoms attacks are always happening.
Honour's Knight
15
But it's important to remember that that is what they are -outliers.
The Irish Times
16
Then again, the BIFAs are very much concerned with rewarding outliers.
The Irish Times
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Outliers across language varieties
United States of America
Common
United Kingdom
Less common