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
Intentionally incoherent To outsiders, the messages make no sense — and that’s the point, said Pete Simi, a sociology professor at Chapman University in California who has studied political violence for about 30 years.
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Laura Yuen, Mercury News, 24 Sep. 2025
That same night, Trick Williams successfully retained the TNA World Championship, meaning both of TNA's world titles were held by outsiders.
—Fernando Quiles Jr, MSNBC Newsweek, 24 Sep. 2025
Increasingly, though, that’s an outsider’s view, one that’s increasingly out of date.
—Christopher Bonanos, Curbed, 24 Sep. 2025
Big companies invest in big changes but are often slow to notice the mundane, systemic inefficiencies a curious outsider can quickly map.
—Kapil Kajal, Interesting Engineering, 23 Sep. 2025
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Laura Yuen, Mercury News, 24 Sep. 2025
That same night, Trick Williams successfully retained the TNA World Championship, meaning both of TNA's world titles were held by outsiders.
—Fernando Quiles Jr, MSNBC Newsweek, 24 Sep. 2025
Increasingly, though, that’s an outsider’s view, one that’s increasingly out of date.
—Christopher Bonanos, Curbed, 24 Sep. 2025
Big companies invest in big changes but are often slow to notice the mundane, systemic inefficiencies a curious outsider can quickly map.
—Kapil Kajal, Interesting Engineering, 23 Sep. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for outsider
Noun
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Living together in the Fear House, a group of strangers face OMG stunts, challenges, and a twisted game of social strategy, Banijay teases.—
John Hopewell,
Variety,
29 Sep. 2025
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If any of the strangers in this open boat lost their minds and threw a few of us overboard, threw me overboard, that would be that.—
Ann Patchett,
New Yorker,
29 Sep. 2025
Noun
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Other Americans and English-speaking foreigners are eager to connect.—
Cepee Tabibian,
CNBC,
28 Sep. 2025
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Wealthy foreigners only have to spend one week a year in Portugal for the first year, and 14 days every subsequent two-year period to qualify for a fast-track to residency.—
Preston Fore,
Fortune,
22 Sep. 2025
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“Outsider.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/outsider. Accessed 2 Oct. 2025.
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