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outsider

noun as in person who is foreign to something

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Reflecting on his decision to leave the company, he said he might have "drunk the Kool-Aid a bit" and had chosen to leave because he no longer felt like "an outsider" in Silicon Valley.

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"Insiders" came to resent the domineering style of Arafat's "outsiders".

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That’s why the infamous newspaper columnist Herb Caen dubbed it “Baghdad by the Bay” more than 80 years ago, when the town had already fully embraced its outsider status.

The pair became easy targets for outsiders after Newcastle went on to lose out on the title to Manchester United, who won 13 of their final 15 league games.

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The outcome has been the exposure of workers’ and beneficiaries’ private personal information to outsiders, all without adequate oversight.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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