as in stranger
a person who is not native to or known to a community
she seems to enjoy the odd distinction of being the only outsider in such a small community
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Recent Examples of outsider
Each adds an element that fits the theme of the outsider, each has experienced tragic loss.
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Jane Ciabattari
june 3, Literary Hub, 3 June 2025
Eileen Higgins, a Miami-Dade County commissioner, is running as an outsider to city politics.
—Douglas Hanks, Miami Herald, 30 May 2025
What to do with the character Aziza, who as the outsider to the family was really the audience’s proxy, and —
6. Was also crucial to our understanding of Nazareth, who, as our narrator was the focus of the play, the character the audience was meant to care the most about.
—Adam Moss, Vulture, 30 May 2025
But there is something in the air that even an outsider could feel at the rehearsal, which was open to donors and press interlopers.
—Mark Swed, Los Angeles Times, 29 May 2025
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Jane Ciabattari
june 3, Literary Hub, 3 June 2025
Eileen Higgins, a Miami-Dade County commissioner, is running as an outsider to city politics.
—Douglas Hanks, Miami Herald, 30 May 2025
What to do with the character Aziza, who as the outsider to the family was really the audience’s proxy, and —
6. Was also crucial to our understanding of Nazareth, who, as our narrator was the focus of the play, the character the audience was meant to care the most about.
—Adam Moss, Vulture, 30 May 2025
But there is something in the air that even an outsider could feel at the rehearsal, which was open to donors and press interlopers.
—Mark Swed, Los Angeles Times, 29 May 2025
See All Example Sentences for outsider
Recent Examples of Synonyms for outsider
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Even people who have never seen the picture may know about its opening sequence, in which Drew Barrymore answers a phone call from a horror movie-loving stranger, which leads into the story's first diabolical kill.—
Jordan Hoffman,
EW.com,
6 June 2025
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On his porch stand a boy and a girl he at first mistakes for strangers.—
Leigh Haber,
Los Angeles Times,
6 June 2025
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Temp to Permanent: There’s periodic debate over the 120,000 foreigners annually awarded temporary H-1B visas, but almost no attention to the process by which many receive green cards.—
Alec MacGillis,
ProPublica,
3 June 2025
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And also the foreigners inside the U.S. have the same protections as the U.S. persons.—
Peter Hessler,
New Yorker,
3 June 2025
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“Outsider.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/outsider. Accessed 10 Jun. 2025.
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