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external

adjective as in outside, extrinsic

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While preaching D.A.R.E. in schools, we made a drug out of external validation.

The Navy and Marine Corps versions of the F-35 have differing configurations and rely on an external gun pod.

However useful they might be for external purposes, they will always be dangerous internally.

He wants to know every external detail, even if the escape is ultimately to be shot on a sound stage.

After all, the Prince of necessity had to focus on defeating his external enemies.

She had expected personality, magnetism, as a compensation for nature's external economies.

However, she was not seeking refreshment or help from any source, either external or from within.

In a strict sense, of course, no child's drawing is absolutely spontaneous and independent of external stimulus and guidance.

Lombard Street has thus shown that it has fully learnt the only lesson that the external side of the crisis had to teach it.

Lost as he was to most external things, Hugh roused himself to some surprise at the name of the hotel.

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On this page you'll find 39 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to external, such as: extraneous, foreign, alien, exterior, independent, and out.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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