outsider

Example Sentences

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“He’s an outsider candidate. He’s a celebrity candidate. He’s very clever, very strategic, and very skilled at social media,” said Republican strategist Kevin Spillane.

From Los Angeles Times • May 21, 2026

"So he was, I think, this Brummie outsider until the end of his life".

From BBC • May 17, 2026

This is the Kafka that has been passed to posterity—the outsider, the pariah, the man condemned to a condition of eternal estrangement.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 15, 2026

Incoming Federal Reserve Chair Kevin Warsh is a former Fed insider who talks like an outsider and has promised to revamp the institution and make a clean break from his predecessors.

From MarketWatch • May 13, 2026

What the boy saw in Sounder would have been totally missed by an outsider.

From "Sounder" by William H. Armstrong