outsider
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Almost performatively indifferent to fame, McCarthy instead tended to the myth, nurtured all his life, that he was a loner and outsider.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 2, 2026
He cast himself as an outsider coming in to fix Westminster.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 1, 2026
Kennedy and her family left Northern Ireland when she was 12 in the 1970s and relocated to the Republic of Ireland where she found herself an outsider in a small, rural village.
From BBC ● Sep. 24, 2026
You said earlier that Zoe is an outsider.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 14, 2026
To an outsider, this torrent of picayune detail about the financial markets would have been disorienting.
From "The Big Short" by Michael Lewis
Now, it is mostly outsiders bringing in cookie-cutter tourist attractions from elsewhere.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 5, 2026
Many said they were excited by promises of 60,000 direct and indirect jobs from the refinery alongside a training centre for 1,000 young people, even if they worry these will mainly benefit outsiders.
From Barron's ● Oct. 1, 2026
They were outsiders, and most of the squad were still based in their domestic league.
From BBC ● Sep. 29, 2026
Many outsiders are looking to Herbert to save the franchise from an abysmal season not many projected.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 26, 2026
A flashlight was forbidden because it might look suspicious to outsiders.
From "The Chocolate War" by Robert Cormier
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