as in foreigners
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 strangers
And since Nex Playground is a kid-friendly console, parents won't have to worry about privacy concerns around public servers, inappropriate ads, and strangers.
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Annabelle Canela, Parents, 7 Oct. 2025
Meanwhile her cat is in a different location, unbothered by the strangers who randomly took his couch.
—Maria Azzurra Volpe, MSNBC Newsweek, 6 Oct. 2025
Artists and writers tend to be strangers, or to see themselves as strangers in this world, and making a story is an attempt to fill that gap, or to describe it, or to just live with it.
—Nina Mesfin, New Yorker, 5 Oct. 2025
The response was instant and overwhelming — strangers from around the world jumped in to help, turning Cohn’s fear into something unexpectedly beautiful.
—Tereza Shkurtaj, PEOPLE, 5 Oct. 2025
Without strangers lunging at her and grabbing her forearm.
—Romina Ruiz-Goiriena, USA Today, 4 Oct. 2025
Jane Goodall and her friend saw strangers in a jungle, reached out their hands, and began a friendship that changed how humans understood our place in the world.
—Scott Simon, NPR, 4 Oct. 2025
Among her recent videos documenting her conversations on Omegle, a video-chatting app for talking with strangers, the one that performed best featured a man calling her an anti-trans slur (Lee isn’t trans).
—Rebecca Jennings, Vulture, 30 Sep. 2025
Please also don’t ask strangers for favors; their time and services are valued.
—Rolling Stone Culture Council, Rolling Stone, 30 Sep. 2025
Annabelle Canela, Parents, 7 Oct. 2025
Meanwhile her cat is in a different location, unbothered by the strangers who randomly took his couch.
—Maria Azzurra Volpe, MSNBC Newsweek, 6 Oct. 2025
Artists and writers tend to be strangers, or to see themselves as strangers in this world, and making a story is an attempt to fill that gap, or to describe it, or to just live with it.
—Nina Mesfin, New Yorker, 5 Oct. 2025
The response was instant and overwhelming — strangers from around the world jumped in to help, turning Cohn’s fear into something unexpectedly beautiful.
—Tereza Shkurtaj, PEOPLE, 5 Oct. 2025
Without strangers lunging at her and grabbing her forearm.
—Romina Ruiz-Goiriena, USA Today, 4 Oct. 2025
Jane Goodall and her friend saw strangers in a jungle, reached out their hands, and began a friendship that changed how humans understood our place in the world.
—Scott Simon, NPR, 4 Oct. 2025
Among her recent videos documenting her conversations on Omegle, a video-chatting app for talking with strangers, the one that performed best featured a man calling her an anti-trans slur (Lee isn’t trans).
—Rebecca Jennings, Vulture, 30 Sep. 2025
Please also don’t ask strangers for favors; their time and services are valued.
—Rolling Stone Culture Council, Rolling Stone, 30 Sep. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for strangers
foreigners
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Pappier says that Venezuela intensified detentions of foreigners after its presidential election in 2024 — a vote that Maduro has been widely accused of stealing.—
Manuel Rueda,
NPR,
4 Oct. 2025
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That, indeed, seems a fairly broad opinion in Luxembourg, with just 670,000 people, nearly half of them foreigners.—
Vivienne Walt,
Time,
3 Oct. 2025
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“Strangers.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/strangers. Accessed 9 Oct. 2025.
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