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Recent Examples of outsider However, according to People, Grace accused them of controlling her and forbidding her from contacting outsiders. David Faris, MSNBC Newsweek, 11 Apr. 2025 Seattle’s beer scene is well-established and will continue to prosper without an outsider’s commentary. Peter Rowe, San Diego Union-Tribune, 11 Apr. 2025 The entire episode was simply bizarre to outsiders to whom South Korea embodies democratic values and technological prowess—not to mention zeitgeist-defining cultural exports from K-pop to Squid Game—when compared to the Stalinist North. Charlie Campbell, Time, 4 Apr. 2025 What the Blue Jackets have been through during the past few months is something that can’t truly be understood by anyone who is an outsider. Josh Yohe, The Athletic, 22 Mar. 2025 See All Example Sentences for outsider
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Noun
  • Embrace a Future-Focused Networking Strategy Networking doesn’t have to mean working a room full of strangers.
    Caroline Castrillon, Forbes.com, 18 Apr. 2025
  • But when does a stranger stops being a stranger anymore?
    Ronda Racha Penrice, HollywoodReporter, 17 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • Athletic were founded in 1898 and originally played with foreigners after British workers and Basque students who had lived there brought football to Bilbao.
    Tomás Hill López-Menchero, New York Times, 29 Apr. 2025
  • For a country with more than thirty trillion dollars in outstanding government debt, about eight trillion of which is owned by foreigners, the spectre of a weakened Treasury bond market is alarming.
    John Cassidy, New Yorker, 28 Apr. 2025

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“Outsider.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/outsider. Accessed 3 May. 2025.

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