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foreigner

noun as in person from another country

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First, foreigners bring it, and eventually the Vietnamese join the party.

From Ozy

In one viral post, a user in China noted that he only received a refund after posing as a foreigner.

From Fortune

The government placed strict limits on the ability of the FBI and other agencies to infiltrate and track such organizations, with new laws and rules establishing more rigorous requirements for surveillance on Americans than foreigners.

Photos from inside the warehouses showed that only a few participants, who included foreigners, wore masks and that social distancing was virtually impossible.

In response, a number of nations are trying to make sure they’re the first choice for those expat-minded foreigners.

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The president of Mongolia is one foreigner who may not be invited back to Kim Il Sung University anytime soon.

Generally, the foreigner is a class of person often aligned with other vulnerable populations like widows and orphans.

He was the only foreigner in such a powerful government position in the Congo.

Yeonmi was forbidden from using computers in the town center because she was a foreigner.

A foreigner such as Bartholdi viewed the abolition of slavery as Liberty achieved in the United States.

Not, indeed, until the foreigner's foot was on the step preparatory to mounting did Garnache speak.

Ye told me that he only kepit twa sairvents: a cook, hoosekeper, who lived awe', an' a man—a foreigner?

A foreigner with an imperfect knowledge of English naturally prefers a doctor to whom he can speak in his own tongue.

"You certainly have been very successful over here, Doctor," observed the foreigner, whose English had been acquired in America.

Ill wager that greasy foreigner has got a wife and ten childrenand neglects them.

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On this page you'll find 30 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to foreigner, such as: alien, immigrant, outsider, greenhorn, newcomer, and outlander.

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

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