outsider

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Using that fame, she ran as a Republican in 2021 in California’s gubernatorial recall election, positioning herself as a political outsider.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 26, 2026

He ran for Jersey City mayor as a fresh-faced outsider with an ambitious progressive agenda, taking office in 2013.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 25, 2026

Austrian coach Adi Hutter is a rank outsider, although he did win admirers in the Premier League with his work at clubs such as Eintracht Frankfurt.

From BBC • Mar. 24, 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

Even though he’s lived in Lanternwood for most of his life, he’s still kind of an outsider.

From "How to Disappear Completely" by Ali Standish