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outsider

[out-sahy-der] / ˌaʊtˈsaɪ dər /


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Maybe it’s that lead singer Morrissey’s outsider mentality and melancholic words resonate with the demographic — or there’s something acutely relatable about the melodramatic musings of a romantic yearner.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 25, 2026

Kennedy and her family left Northern Ireland when she was 12 in the 1970s and relocated to the Republic of Ireland where she found herself an outsider in a small, rural village.

From BBC ● Sep. 24, 2026

The wrong team, the wrong fan, by every conventional measure an outsider.

From Salon ● Sep. 9, 2026

Both times I was the obvious outsider, though never in fear.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 27, 2026

What the boy saw in Sounder would have been totally missed by an outsider.

From "Sounder" by William H. Armstrong

Many outsiders are looking to Herbert to save the franchise from an abysmal season not many projected.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 26, 2026

Important AI capabilities reside in software and computing systems whose activities are often harder for outsiders to observe.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 22, 2026

It is selling outsiders access to its most advanced AI models, and is making a potential cloud-computing push.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 18, 2026

The Muslim-majority region, battling some of India's highest unemployment rates, has become increasingly dependent on outsiders to perform jobs that many locals consider menial, including domestic work, agriculture and construction.

From Barron's ● Sep. 14, 2026

What seemed perfectly normal to white Birmingham residents proved a genuine contradiction of our nation’s democratic ideals to outsiders such as Salisbury.

From "While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement" by Carolyn Maull McKinstry




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