strangers

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To everyone else, the crowd is the point: the immigrant kid, the muddy field, the strangers who become one thing for 90 minutes.

From Slate • Jun. 11, 2026

Children have better outcomes when placed with family than in a foster-care system with strangers.

From MarketWatch • Jun. 8, 2026

Fast facts: The “E.T.” and “Close Encounters of the Third Kind” director Steven Spielberg revisits interplanetary life in this thriller starring Emily Blunt and Josh O’Connor as two strangers drawn together by their extraterrestrial experiences.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 6, 2026

She says they were pitched as giving single people "access to a virtually infinite pool of strangers" and sparing them "from the possibility of rejection".

From BBC • Jun. 4, 2026

Table by table, the circle of belief widened from friends to acquaintances, from acquaintances to strangers, until it included many prominent Rochester businessmen, doctors, ministers, wives, and children … soon reaching the famous Frederick Douglass.

From "American Spirits" by Barb Rosenstock