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How to use the word outsized in a Sentence?

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It seems like it's more than just tiger sharks, it's probably these bigger species that play an outsized role in helping shape the ecosystems they're a part of.

Michael Heithaus

Found on CNN
2 years ago

You can't overstate how debilitating $ 5 a gallon is, economists are always confused by how outsized a role gas prices play in people's economic thinking. It's because it's in their face all day long.

George Loewenstein

Found on CNN
2 years ago

While there have been a lot of negative headlines over the promotional activities around the Morgan Stanley analyst Thomas Allen sports betting industry, it has resulted in a highly concentrated market that should be positive long term, scale matters and to-date, it appears that only FanDuel, DraftKings, and BetMGM have been able to consistently gain outsized market share.

Morgan Stanley

Found on CNN
2 years ago

I used to say when I was leader... I had' x' number of independent contractors, and I think that's exactly what we've got now. You have two independent contractors who are not aligned with any particular caucus or organization or cause. They are truly independent and are capable with the numeric circumstances both caucuses are facing to have enormous, I would say outsized, influence, because of their ability to use that veto, or the threat of a veto.

Tom Daschle

Found on CNN
3 years ago

There's not going to be one big thing that Congress or EPA or states do that just solves it, there will be a few actions that are going to have outsized impact on their own like a congressional bill, but no one should look to congress and expect that's the lion's share of the contribution.

John Larsen

Found on CNN
3 years ago

He played such an outsized role in my life was as warm loving generous off camera as he was on. Willard, you didn't make it to the front of the Smucker's jar but you changed so many lives for the better.

Katie Couric

Found on CNN
3 years ago

South Korean bonds tend to see outsized inflows during times of market volatility, due to foreign investors rebalancing from higher-beta Asian bonds into the safer Korean bonds.

Duncan Tan

Found on Reuters
3 years ago

The Trump administration gets outsized attention because The Trump administration's a lot of people. They do The Trump administration for safety, they do The Trump administration for community. ... The Trump administration doesn't necessarily mean they have a better chance of getting in, we knew for awhile there was pent up demand to come to the United States.

Theresa Brown

Found on CNN
3 years ago

OPEC is looking at that – it has outsized importance.

Robert Yawger

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

Until the pandemic hit this year, this administration stopped those declines and had even begun to reverse them. Stopping such a steep and rapid decline is significant in itself and shouldnt be overlooked, this administration has worked to address eight years of regulatory overreach to level the playing field not just for coal but a variety of industries. The result has been a return of competition in the energy industry although we still have a long way to go thanks to outsized subsidies for renewables.

Conor Bernstein

Found on FOX News
4 years ago

It doesn't matter how white our state is -- it still exists. When we look at the incidences, for example, of the number of people of color who here in the state of Maine had a positive Covid infection rate and how outsized that was compared to the rest of the population. We see it in terms of access to education for people of color, access to health care, rates of poverty, rates of incarceration, and we do have to do something about it.

Sara Gideon

Found on CNN
4 years ago

In general, humans care about other humans, so when we humanize something inanimate, it makes us care about the thing more, naming things can make them more memorable, easier to recall, and certainly it makes things feel more fluent or easy to process. Given that work shows that easily processed information takes on outsized importance in our minds, it is likely that naming things can give them importance as well.

Adam Waytz

Found on CNN
4 years ago

We're providing a service to sellers, the' flip' term has embedded in it some negative connotations around taking advantage of people in distressed situations and making outsized profits. That's not what we're doing.

Rich Barton

Found on CNN
4 years ago

Our Board of Directors also considered the highly conditional and uncertain nature of the proposal, including the potential impact of outsized debt levels on the combined company's stock.

Our Board of Directors

Found on CNN
5 years ago

There is growing evidence that a handful of corporations have come to capture an outsized share of online commerce and communications, this information is key in helping determine whether anticompetitive behavior is occurring, whether our antitrust enforcement agencies should investigate specific issues and whether or not our antitrust laws need improvement to better promote competition in the digital markets.

House Judiciary Committee

Found on Reuters
5 years ago

You've an environment where we're digesting the move down in interest rates and the yield curve yesterday, volume is lighter today. You're not getting outsized movements one way or the other.

Darrell Cronk

Found on Reuters
5 years ago

Facebook plays an outsized role in our society and our economy. They have a social and financial responsibility to be transparent.

New York

Found on CNN
6 years ago

Given that our Herbalife investment has become an outsized position, representing approximately 24 percent exposure to total NAV (net asset value), it is only prudent for IEP to reduce its exposure.

Carl Icahn

Found on Reuters
6 years ago

I don't foresee an outsized risk of a breakout in inflation, as long as this picture continues, the (Fed) can increase rates gradually while monitoring any rising inflationary pressures.

Chicago Fed President Charles Evans

Found on Reuters
6 years ago

Narcissism is an occupational hazard for political leaders, you have to have an outsized ambition and an outsized ego to run for office.

Stanley Renshon

Found on CNN
7 years ago

ISIS has been able to exert an outsized impact on how the world perceives it, by disseminating images of graphic violence ….

Brookings Institute

Found on FOX News
8 years ago

In this context, we have taken immediate action to reduce outsized positions in activities not consistent with our new strategy and systematically reduced our exposures.

Tidjane Thiam

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

Sentiment is clearly on edge and I think the market's move has been outsized, relative to actual changes in fundamentals, i think it's more of a growth scare which is getting magnified by the moves in financial markets.

Aaron Clark

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

As you know, Friends of the Earth fights against the outsized influence of money in politics.

Erich Pica

Found on CNN
8 years ago

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