as in foreigner
a person who is not native to or known to a community
the people of the island are quick to make strangers feel at home
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Recent Examples of stranger
Heather Demers tried the popular good luck McDonald’s French fries hack—which is meant to improve IVF success rates, though with no scientific backing—and was stunned when over 300 family members, friends and even strangers joined in to show their support.
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Maria Morava, MSNBC Newsweek, 25 Oct. 2025
Before long, strangers are watching, liking, and commenting on a moment that was meant to be private.
—Eli Thompson, Rolling Stone, 25 Oct. 2025
By its third season, those strangers and survivors collided across continents.
—Jp Mangalindan, Time, 24 Oct. 2025
Gun owners aren’t going to set their weapons aside when masked and unidentified strangers break in and try to abduct them.
—Mercury News, 24 Oct. 2025
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Maria Morava, MSNBC Newsweek, 25 Oct. 2025
Before long, strangers are watching, liking, and commenting on a moment that was meant to be private.
—Eli Thompson, Rolling Stone, 25 Oct. 2025
By its third season, those strangers and survivors collided across continents.
—Jp Mangalindan, Time, 24 Oct. 2025
Gun owners aren’t going to set their weapons aside when masked and unidentified strangers break in and try to abduct them.
—Mercury News, 24 Oct. 2025
See All Example Sentences for stranger
Recent Examples of Synonyms for stranger
Noun
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Social media has also been flooded with racist and xenophobic comments, especially about Indians, amid fears that an influx of foreigners could erode national identity in China, where the population has fallen for the past three consecutive years.—
Peter Guo,
NBC news,
23 Oct. 2025
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Indonesia’s last executions, of a citizen and three foreigners, were carried out in July 2016.—
CNN Money,
CNN Money,
22 Oct. 2025
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After all, the human and the alien in Lanthimos’s films have always been divided by the most porous of membranes.—
Justin Chang,
New Yorker,
24 Oct. 2025
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The two buffoons shave her head, chain her in the basement of a messy remote home and then accuse her of being an alien.—
Randy Myers,
Mercury News,
22 Oct. 2025
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“Stranger.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/stranger. Accessed 29 Oct. 2025.
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