strangers
Example Sentences
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Karl talks about the "kindness of strangers", noting how one family in Chile became "almost like a second family".
From BBC ● Sep. 19, 2026
Maintaining an openness to people — and a willingness to strengthen connections with everyone from distant or estranged family members to friends, acquaintances and strangers — enables you to benefit from more social interaction.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 18, 2026
The South L.A. native recently moved back home after living in Kansas, where she told Corinne that strangers seemed far more at ease living with each other.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 18, 2026
Samsung foldable phone users are also sharing tales of strangers excitedly asking them “Is that the new iPhone?,” causing a collective eye roll.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 17, 2026
He’d always known his DNA came from strangers; did it really matter if they were strangers from Bangladesh or Ethiopia or China instead of Kansas or Kentucky or Maine?
From "Found" by Margaret Peterson Haddix
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