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
Experts say key warning signs include urgent requests for money, cryptocurrency payments or gift cards, or strangers asking to move conversations off social media platforms.
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Carolyn Gusoff, CBS News, 12 Mar. 2026
The daughter said she was comforted some by the kindness of strangers, including Jhon Rodriguez, 30, who was shoved to the same downtown tracks moments before her father.
—Emma Seiwell, New York Daily News, 12 Mar. 2026
Its demands included better enforcement of minimum age requirements, preventing strangers from being able to contact children, safer content for teens, and an end to product testing, such as AI, on children.
—Sawdah Bhaimiya, CNBC, 12 Mar. 2026
At the end of the night, Samson Fellows posted himself at the doors, thanking every single person for coming, embracing strangers and fielding questions about when the next shows might be.
—Hazlitt, 11 Mar. 2026
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Carolyn Gusoff, CBS News, 12 Mar. 2026
The daughter said she was comforted some by the kindness of strangers, including Jhon Rodriguez, 30, who was shoved to the same downtown tracks moments before her father.
—Emma Seiwell, New York Daily News, 12 Mar. 2026
Its demands included better enforcement of minimum age requirements, preventing strangers from being able to contact children, safer content for teens, and an end to product testing, such as AI, on children.
—Sawdah Bhaimiya, CNBC, 12 Mar. 2026
At the end of the night, Samson Fellows posted himself at the doors, thanking every single person for coming, embracing strangers and fielding questions about when the next shows might be.
—Hazlitt, 11 Mar. 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for stranger
Noun
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Were Fidel Castro’s efforts to free his people from the degrading influences of foreigners meant to be erased by a president who, instead of allowing Cuba to struggle with its problems, added to them by cutting its oil supply?—
Letters to the Editor,
The Orlando Sentinel,
13 Mar. 2026
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Today’s China may have lost a lot of the graciousness once bestowed on foreigners, or at least Americans, generally speaking, but one country that has been consistently convivial over several decades for this guy is Japan.—
David Dickstein,
Oc Register,
11 Mar. 2026
Noun
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Kona Blackwater Dive is an advanced, thrilling dive over deep water (thousands of feet) to witness the nightly migration of pelagic, alien-like and larval creatures.—
Ben Davidson,
Mercury News,
16 Mar. 2026
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As a result, the alien almost certainly wouldn’t have the same basic chemical or genetic building blocks that all life on Earth shares—and a simple genetic test would reveal that, Wong says.—
Emma Gometz,
Scientific American,
15 Mar. 2026
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“Stranger.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/stranger. Accessed 19 Mar. 2026.
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