the outside
noun
: an area around or near something (such as a building)
The house looks nice from the outside.
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The building was 100 years old when the fire hit and the outside of it is still standing.
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Tonya Mosley, NPR, 5 Jan. 2026
Eleven finds her way to them, jumping inside the Mind Flayer to destroy Vecna, who’s controlling it from within, while Will fights telepathically from the outside, no longer empathetic or afraid to go toe to toe with his former saboteur.
—Yohana Desta, Rolling Stone, 4 Jan. 2026
But for the most part, now only a hard knock from the outside brings dictators down.
—Eliot A. Cohen, The Atlantic, 4 Jan. 2026
There are post-release government resources for people exiting prison, but none tailored to the extraordinary circumstances of the exonerated — wronged by the legal system, in many cases over decades, and then suddenly put on the street with no preparation or plan for facing the outside world.
—Olivia Olander, Chicago Tribune, 4 Jan. 2026
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Tonya Mosley, NPR, 5 Jan. 2026
Eleven finds her way to them, jumping inside the Mind Flayer to destroy Vecna, who’s controlling it from within, while Will fights telepathically from the outside, no longer empathetic or afraid to go toe to toe with his former saboteur.
—Yohana Desta, Rolling Stone, 4 Jan. 2026
But for the most part, now only a hard knock from the outside brings dictators down.
—Eliot A. Cohen, The Atlantic, 4 Jan. 2026
There are post-release government resources for people exiting prison, but none tailored to the extraordinary circumstances of the exonerated — wronged by the legal system, in many cases over decades, and then suddenly put on the street with no preparation or plan for facing the outside world.
—Olivia Olander, Chicago Tribune, 4 Jan. 2026
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“The outside.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/the%20outside. Accessed 8 Jan. 2026.
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