foreigner
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“Kafka was a foreigner everywhere, especially in Prague,” Maïa Hruska writes in her absorbing book, “Kafkaesque,” which receives a fittingly attentive translation from the French by Sam Taylor.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 15, 2026
The foreigner ministers of Chile and Bolivia met Thursday in a step toward restoring relations severed 50 years ago, the latter's foreign minister said.
From Barron's • Apr. 23, 2026
“I was such a foreigner, a guest in that community,” he said.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 8, 2026
They also cast him as a foreigner, despite him being from Puerto Rico, which is a U.S. territory and makes him a U.S. citizen since birth.
From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 4, 2026
He was unforgivably a foreigner then, foreign to them, foreign to me, foreign to everyone but Mama, who sat next to him smiling with pleased modesty.
From "Farewell to Manzanar" by Jeanne Houston
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