alien
Example Sentences
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Former US President Barack Obama has clarified that the chances Earth has been visited by aliens is "low" after comments he made about extra-terrestrial species caught attention online.
From BBC
Over time, as people are uprooted from their agricultural communities as industrialisation tears apart people's familiar attachments, individuals become "alienated", he says.
From BBC
Lily’s garbled words sound more like an alien language than anything resembling French.
From Literature
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It featured a large, alien character, resembling a human but with a distorted head shape and muzzled mouth.
From BBC
Patches covered the entire back panel with moons, rocket ships, skulls, alien heads, and something that looked like a chupacabra.
From Literature
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.