He got used to being an odd man out at Oxford University, which he attended on a prestigious Rhodes Scholarship.

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The Belgian Symbolist artist James Ensor (1860-1949) was an odd man out in late-19th-century vanguard painting, and his best work is nearly as dense and bewildering today.

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Elias set up the goal by skating around Isles defenseman Mark Streit at the blue line to set up an odd-man rush.

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For example, during his three seasons as the Florida Panthers' head coach, DeBoer often had his defensemen quickly drop back into their own zone, either to retrieve the puck or guard against an odd-man rush.

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Mr Blass had a few lessons at an art school, and was taken on as an artist and odd-job man by a clothes manufacturer.

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Laxalt's prominence in national politics occasionally put her in an odd position of publicly discussing the integrity of the man who is the father of her child.

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