The phrase "outsize role" means that something or someone has a bigger or more significant impact or influence compared to others in a particular situation or context.
Sentences with «outsize role»
David Lindenmayer of the Australian National University College of Science in Canberra says that older trees play outsize roles in maintaining landscapes and ecosystems. (scientificamerican.com)
«But we remain deeply concerned about the continued outsize role of high - stakes testing in our school system.» (uft.org)
The country that has played such a ridiculously outsize role in the American imagination is right here before us, lush and threadbare, beguiling and humdrum, proud and ruined. (travelandleisure.com)