as in stranger
a person who is not native to or known to a community
she seems to enjoy the odd distinction of being the only outsider in such a small community
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Nonprofits have long struggled to provide services in Short Creek, where polygamous families are taught to be wary of outsiders.
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Erin Alberty, Axios, 10 Dec. 2024
Cheshire was a broadcasting outsider but used to be CEO of UK retail group Kingfisher and, before that, B&Q.
—Max Goldbart, Deadline, 10 Dec. 2024
The Dawn/Aurora character is a classic outsider – a bit adrift, never quite at home in either the U.S. or the Soviet Union.
—Erin Douglass, The Christian Science Monitor, 5 Dec. 2024
The other two 1824 candidates were Henry Clay, a Kentuckian who served as speaker of the House, and Andrew Jackson, a popular general from Tennessee who defeated the British in the Battle of New Orleans in 1815 and billed himself as a true political outsider.
—Eli Wizevich, Smithsonian Magazine, 1 Dec. 2024
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Erin Alberty, Axios, 10 Dec. 2024
Cheshire was a broadcasting outsider but used to be CEO of UK retail group Kingfisher and, before that, B&Q.
—Max Goldbart, Deadline, 10 Dec. 2024
The Dawn/Aurora character is a classic outsider – a bit adrift, never quite at home in either the U.S. or the Soviet Union.
—Erin Douglass, The Christian Science Monitor, 5 Dec. 2024
The other two 1824 candidates were Henry Clay, a Kentuckian who served as speaker of the House, and Andrew Jackson, a popular general from Tennessee who defeated the British in the Battle of New Orleans in 1815 and billed himself as a true political outsider.
—Eli Wizevich, Smithsonian Magazine, 1 Dec. 2024
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“Outsider.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/outsider. Accessed 22 Dec. 2024.
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