feel left out

idiom

: to feel that one is not included in something
He always feels left out when his friends talk about sports.

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Meanwhile, Debra continues to feel left out, especially when Harry refuses to eat her tofu kebabs, leading to a lot of cursing and storming out. Louis Peitzman, Vulture, 20 Dec. 2024 Groups that increasingly feel left out of Nashville include people over 65 years old, low-income individuals and LGBTQ+ residents. Rosalind Bowling, The Tennessean, 4 Oct. 2024 Countries outside of those two powerhouses increasingly feel left out of the race and have to rely on the former to benefit from the AI technology revolution. Zeyi Yang, WIRED, 3 Dec. 2024 But there’s no need to feel left out, even if your company’s computers haven’t learned much lately. IEEE Spectrum, 27 July 2016 See all Example Sentences for feel left out 

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“Feel left out.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/feel%20left%20out. Accessed 21 Jan. 2025.

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