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noun

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Adjective
  • The court said the state was likely to succeed on the merits of the case, saying the state’s law was narrowly tailored to serve the government’s compelling interest in preventing foreign influence on elections.
    BrieAnna J. Frank, USA Today, 22 July 2025
  • So in many other ways, the sounds and sights of their household were foreign to us.
    Mankaprr Conteh, Rolling Stone, 22 July 2025
Noun
  • The viral video, with just under a half a million views, led commenters to share their own experiences of comforting strangers.
    Colson Thayer, People.com, 22 July 2025
  • On Sunday, Lovett Moore’s family and friends, volunteers, strangers and clergy from as far away as the Bay Area began their search once again, gathering near the Arena Boulevard gas station where the legally blind and disabled Natomas man was last seen.
    Darrell Smith, Sacbee.com, 21 July 2025
Noun
  • Cuba began to attract international tourism, and with it, the government created a sort of tourism apartheid, whereby Cubans were not allowed to enter resort hotels where foreigners sunbathed and drank mojitos by the pool.
    Jane Ciabattari July 22, Literary Hub, 22 July 2025
  • The latest revival of this performance comes courtesy of the United Kingdom, where the government closed a centuries-old tax loophole that let wealthy foreigners reside in the U.K. but insist their income did not.
    Andrew Leahey, Forbes.com, 20 July 2025
Noun
  • Haruko is an alien and is chasing something enormously powerful and equally mysterious, and Naota and the robot Canti clearly have something to do with it.
    Ollie Barder, Forbes.com, 14 July 2025
  • Superman happens to be both: a square-jawed every-Adonis from middle America who is, in fact, an alien.
    Paul A. Thompson, Pitchfork, 11 July 2025
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“Nonnative.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/nonnative. Accessed 30 Jul. 2025.

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