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
In your latest two films and your earlier works, there is a recurring theme of crossing borders, other places, being an outsider – sometimes even in one’s hometown.
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Gavin J Blair, HollywoodReporter, 28 Oct. 2025
Twenty years later, now working alongside Bua to clear the land of bombs, Na’s mission collides with outsiders – David, an American searching for missing soldiers, and Big-D, a troubled local.
—Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 27 Oct. 2025
In one example in April, Indian police arrested an American YouTuber who visited an off-limits island in the Indian Ocean and left an offering of a Diet Coke can in an attempt to make contact with the reclusive Sentinelese tribe, which is known to shoot at outsiders with bows and arrows.
—Mithil Aggarwal, NBC news, 27 Oct. 2025
And outsiders are not the only threat.
—Lionel Laurent, Twin Cities, 24 Oct. 2025
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Gavin J Blair, HollywoodReporter, 28 Oct. 2025
Twenty years later, now working alongside Bua to clear the land of bombs, Na’s mission collides with outsiders – David, an American searching for missing soldiers, and Big-D, a troubled local.
—Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 27 Oct. 2025
In one example in April, Indian police arrested an American YouTuber who visited an off-limits island in the Indian Ocean and left an offering of a Diet Coke can in an attempt to make contact with the reclusive Sentinelese tribe, which is known to shoot at outsiders with bows and arrows.
—Mithil Aggarwal, NBC news, 27 Oct. 2025
And outsiders are not the only threat.
—Lionel Laurent, Twin Cities, 24 Oct. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for outsider
Noun
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Raised by strangers due to his mother’s drug addiction, Guy has also struggled much of his life with hearing voices.—
Abbey White,
HollywoodReporter,
27 Oct. 2025
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Inside, many near-strangers shared a salsa or bachata song.—
Kinsey Crowley,
USA Today,
27 Oct. 2025
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Social media has also been flooded with racist and xenophobic comments, especially about Indians, amid fears that an influx of foreigners could erode national identity in China, where the population has fallen for the past three consecutive years.—
Peter Guo,
NBC news,
23 Oct. 2025
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Indonesia’s last executions, of a citizen and three foreigners, were carried out in July 2016.—
CNN Money,
CNN Money,
22 Oct. 2025
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“Outsider.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/outsider. Accessed 1 Nov. 2025.
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