outsider

Example Sentences

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It’s worth noting that in “Austenland,” Jane’s budget package—copper, as opposed to platinum—makes her the movie’s counterpart to the orphaned Fanny, as well as the reliable Austen outsider.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 31, 2026

When she was starting as a comedian, as an “older woman who was talking about having babies,” Blaine felt like an outsider.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 25, 2026

He went to secondary school in the wealthy bourgeois 16th arrondissement of Paris, where he said he felt an uncomfortable outsider, and later attended the elite ENA administration school.

From BBC • Mar. 23, 2026

The 2026 Cheltenham Festival was the year of the outsider, with the average starting price of every winner at the meeting the highest it has been in the past 10 years at 14-1.

From BBC • Mar. 13, 2026

I gave up very quickly trying to make people understand what it meant to be the outsider.

From "Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho" by Jon Katz