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Examples of odd man out in a Sentence
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No longer the odd man out?
—USA TODAY, 4 Mar. 2024
That’s left the tax bill as the odd man out, as Wyden searches for another piece of legislation on which the tax provisions could hitch a ride before mid-April.
—Jacob Bogage, Washington Post, 10 Mar. 2024
Pedro Sanchez, Napoleon Dynamite (2004) Sidekick to: Napoleon Dynamite
An odd man out in an Idaho high school, Pedro (Efren Ramirez) is the cool yin to Napoleon's (Jon Heder) tempestuous yang.
—Ew Staff Updated, EW.com, 6 Mar. 2024
Sheppard was unsurprisingly the odd man out, and he's appeared in just 22 of the Pacers' 44 games this season with most of his appearances coming when the game was already decided one way or the other.
—Dustin Dopirak, The Indianapolis Star, 24 Jan. 2024
This meant that Highsmith was the odd man out against the Magic.
—Anthony Chiang, Miami Herald, 7 Feb. 2024
With Disney’s scale, Netflix taking off like a rocket ship, WBD’s finances improving and NBCUniversal benefiting from Comcast’s fire hose of cash, Paramount seems to be the odd man out, with analysts concerned about its debt and its ability to continue growing.
—Alex Weprin, The Hollywood Reporter, 4 Jan. 2024
The odd man out is Brenden Jaimes, a fifth-round pick in 2021.
—Jeff Miller, Los Angeles Times, 26 Aug. 2023
But even aside from that, Fallon, despite the Strike Force’s five-way jollity, seems like the group’s distractible odd man out.
—Sarah Larson, The New Yorker, 29 Sep. 2023
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Word History
First Known Use
1873, in the meaning defined above
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“Odd man out.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/odd%20man%20out. Accessed 28 May. 2024.
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