outsider

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Is it enough to merit the risk of an untested outsider with more than a few red flags, a talent for attracting bad press, and enough jagged edges to crack a lobster shell?

From Slate • Jun. 5, 2026

I was aware before I arrived that it had outsider status here.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 5, 2026

Although he has a degree in political science, Pratt is a political outsider who has never held public office.

From BBC • Jun. 3, 2026

But in the realm of outsider candidates with Republican credentials, Rick Caruso, who ran against Bass last time, was comfortable whether he was in the Valley, South L.A. or anywhere in between.

From Los Angeles Times • May 30, 2026

She talked about her dad and stepmom and her two stepbrothers in San Francisco, and how she had felt like an outsider in her own family.

From "The Mark of Athena" by Rick Riordan