as in foreigner
a person who is not native to or known to a community
the people of the island are quick to make strangers feel at home
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Recent Examples of stranger
Just as in the first season, the nine strangers joining Masha undergo psychedelic therapy to heal their respective traumas but not without some initial hesitations.
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Lexy Perez, HollywoodReporter, 29 Apr. 2025
Fellow soldiers, family, and friends, as well as a host of strangers, file past the open casket of Vasyl Ratushnyi at the sky-blue and onion-domed St. Michael’s Golden-Domed Monastery.
—Howard Lafranchi, Christian Science Monitor, 29 Apr. 2025
The scene is harrowing and poignant, two strangers trying their damndest to save a dying man on a cold, wet sidewalk.
—Jason Motlagh, Rolling Stone, 27 Apr. 2025
The stranger touched the woman to get her attention, police said, leading to a scuffle between the two men.
—Tanasia Kenney, Miami Herald, 25 Apr. 2025
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Lexy Perez, HollywoodReporter, 29 Apr. 2025
Fellow soldiers, family, and friends, as well as a host of strangers, file past the open casket of Vasyl Ratushnyi at the sky-blue and onion-domed St. Michael’s Golden-Domed Monastery.
—Howard Lafranchi, Christian Science Monitor, 29 Apr. 2025
The scene is harrowing and poignant, two strangers trying their damndest to save a dying man on a cold, wet sidewalk.
—Jason Motlagh, Rolling Stone, 27 Apr. 2025
The stranger touched the woman to get her attention, police said, leading to a scuffle between the two men.
—Tanasia Kenney, Miami Herald, 25 Apr. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for stranger
Noun
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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
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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
Noun
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Eventually the aliens will slip up and do something unhuman a little too nonchalantly.—
Bluesky Social,
Bluesky Social,
22 Apr. 2025
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By the time the third movie in the franchise rolls around, the zombies, cheerleaders, and werewolves face off with a group of invading aliens with uncertain intentions and (no spoilers) an unexpected secret about Addison’s true identity is revealed.—
Elisabeth Sherman,
Parents,
22 Apr. 2025
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“Stranger.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/stranger. Accessed 4 May. 2025.
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