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alien

[eyl-yuhn, ey-lee-uhn] / ˈeɪl yən, ˈeɪ li ən /




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And when a fictitious alien attempts to escape, he crashes into the Unisphere—actually a model of the giant globe—nearby.

From The Wall Street Journal

Former US President Barack Obama has clarified that the chances Earth has been visited by aliens is "low" after comments he made about extra-terrestrial species caught attention online.

From BBC

Over time, as people are uprooted from their agricultural communities as industrialisation tears apart people's familiar attachments, individuals become "alienated", he says.

From BBC

Lily’s garbled words sound more like an alien language than anything resembling French.

From Literature

It featured a large, alien character, resembling a human but with a distorted head shape and muzzled mouth.

From BBC