as in stranger
a person who is not native to or known to a community
I can tell by your accent you're a foreigner in these parts
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Recent Examples of foreigner
The average person on the street is fascinated with foreigners, and this fascination extends to Americans.
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Kim Hjelmgaard, USA Today, 17 June 2025
But the declaration puts forth the argument that the British king and the Parliament are also to blame for having transformed a united people, a people who used to love each other, into a mass of foreigners suspicious of each other.
—Maurizio Valsania, The Conversation, 17 June 2025
The government said bringing in foreigners is a privilege not a right, according to Tiberius Davis, counsel to the assistant attorney general.
—Nadine El-Bawab, ABC News, 16 June 2025
What To Know Citing unnamed U.S. officials, The Washington Post said possibly as early as this week, the Trump administration could start transferring foreigners who are in the U.S. illegally to the U.S. military base in Guantánamo Bay, Cuba.
—Brendan Cole, MSNBC Newsweek, 11 June 2025
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Kim Hjelmgaard, USA Today, 17 June 2025
But the declaration puts forth the argument that the British king and the Parliament are also to blame for having transformed a united people, a people who used to love each other, into a mass of foreigners suspicious of each other.
—Maurizio Valsania, The Conversation, 17 June 2025
The government said bringing in foreigners is a privilege not a right, according to Tiberius Davis, counsel to the assistant attorney general.
—Nadine El-Bawab, ABC News, 16 June 2025
What To Know Citing unnamed U.S. officials, The Washington Post said possibly as early as this week, the Trump administration could start transferring foreigners who are in the U.S. illegally to the U.S. military base in Guantánamo Bay, Cuba.
—Brendan Cole, MSNBC Newsweek, 11 June 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for foreigner
stranger
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Mackenzie Brown is pursuing her dream of becoming a nurse thanks to the kindness of strangers.—
Khaleda Rahman,
MSNBC Newsweek,
30 June 2025
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Each year, teams of strangers—a composer, a writer, a choreographer, and a director—create a musical at breakneck speed.—
Emily Nussbaum,
New Yorker,
30 June 2025
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“Foreigner.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/foreigner. Accessed 4 Jul. 2025.
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