stranger
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The case pitted McGlockton’s right to defend his family from a threatening stranger against Drejka’s right to initiate a confrontation over a parking spot and then to mete out justice according to his own whim.
From Slate • Jun. 4, 2026
Turns out that stranger is no stranger at all.
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 2, 2026
For Borel, the case grew even stranger a few days after the heist, when a man approached him at the inn’s bar.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 31, 2026
The marvelous, real-life expanse of the Backrooms set allows Parsons to track his characters through the ceaseless spaces, their architecture subtly growing stranger the further they get.
From Salon • May 30, 2026
I didn’t have anything like that for my scroll—for obvious anonymous reasons—but the idea of just...telling a stranger about this huge part of you?
From "Bye Forever, I Guess" by Jodi Meadows
Vocabulary lists containing stranger
"Encounter"
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"One Crazy Summer" by Rita Williams-Garcia, List 1
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