as in stranger
a person who is not native to or known to a community I can tell by your accent you're a foreigner in these parts
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Recent Examples of foreigner Like every guide with the foreign tour operator Intourist, she was vaguely affiliated with the secret services (KGB) and so filled out reports about her interactions with foreigners that no one read. —
Literary Hub, 3 Apr. 2026 From the time of the foreigners’ first arrival in 1543 until their expulsion in the 1630s, there was a modest amount of cultural transmission. —Encyclopedia Britannica, 2 Apr. 2026 In Japan, a gaijin (foreigner) is on their own. —Jeremy O. Harris, Vanity Fair, 1 Apr. 2026 More than half the Jews living there during the Holocaust, however, were foreigners – including nearly 100,000 refugees who had recently fled Nazi violence. —Shannon Fogg, The Conversation, 31 Mar. 2026 See All Example Sentences for foreigner
Literary Hub, 3 Apr. 2026 From the time of the foreigners’ first arrival in 1543 until their expulsion in the 1630s, there was a modest amount of cultural transmission. —Encyclopedia Britannica, 2 Apr. 2026 In Japan, a gaijin (foreigner) is on their own. —Jeremy O. Harris, Vanity Fair, 1 Apr. 2026 More than half the Jews living there during the Holocaust, however, were foreigners – including nearly 100,000 refugees who had recently fled Nazi violence. —Shannon Fogg, The Conversation, 31 Mar. 2026 See All Example Sentences for foreigner
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In the course of the narrative, as John is embraced by friends and assaulted by strangers, Jones’s storytelling veers between breakthroughs and setbacks with a rhythm so mechanical as to verge on metronomic.— Justin Chang, New Yorker, 17 Apr. 2026
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Though the titular beef is among coworkers at a Southern California country club, rather than strangers who take a road-rage incident too far, resulting in a much more passive-aggressive style of confrontation and rivalries that feel a bit more reasonable, at least at the start.— Elaina Patton, IndieWire, 17 Apr. 2026
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“Foreigner.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.grautoblog.com/thesaurus/foreigner. Accessed 23 Apr. 2026.
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