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n. - An extreme deviation from the mean; A person who lives away from his place of work.

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  • The outlier is the Globe/UNH poll, which showed Patrick ahead by only 1.
  • Which, of course, means it's a bit of an outlier from the other polls we've seen.
  • Of course, the outlier is Tristan, which might as well be a 20th century opera anyway.
  • Finding a poll showing them nearly tied is not an "outlier" - it just confirms the Rasmussen poll.
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