alien
Example Sentences
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Immanuel made headlines a few years ago for claiming that many of America’s health problems are linked to alien DNA and sperm from demons.
From Salon • Apr. 4, 2026
Apers believe Bigfoot is just a primate unknown to science while Woo-Woos think Bigfoot is some sort of interdimensional traveller - an alien of sort.
From BBC • Apr. 3, 2026
"Initially, I thought we must have sequenced some alien species. It's very rare for an active gene, which makes a protein, to not have a match."
From Science Daily • Mar. 26, 2026
An alien who is stopped in Mexico does not arrive in the United States.”
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 24, 2026
In reality I lay many hundred miles away in an alien land, and would wake, before many seconds had passed, in the bare little hotel bedroom, comforting in its very lack of atmosphere.
From "Rebecca" by Daphne du Maurier
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.