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alien

[eyl-yuhn, ey-lee-uhn] / ˈeɪl yən, ˈeɪ li ən /




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“Margo has a favorite alien T-shirt. And then in an early episode, she has another button-down shirt that has an alien. Hopefully, the viewers notice that it’s in her subconscious.”

From Los Angeles Times • May 20, 2026

The crowd drowns in the second-long tension as they sit below teardrop-shaped papier-mâché stalactite hanging from handmade alien geodes on the ceiling.

From Los Angeles Times • May 18, 2026

He cites the 2024 finding on Mars by the Perseverance rover of “a biosignature of heavy-metal reduction by alien microbes, possibly the most incredible discovery of the century.”

From The Wall Street Journal • May 15, 2026

Among others, online forum Reddit updated its alien character Snoo in 2023 to be more animated and emotive.

From BBC • May 13, 2026

He looked too alien, too sterile, too humorless.

From "The School for Whatnots" by Margaret Peterson Haddix




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