outsider

Example Sentences

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This is the Kafka that has been passed to posterity—the outsider, the pariah, the man condemned to a condition of eternal estrangement.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 15, 2026

Incoming Federal Reserve Chair Kevin Warsh is a former Fed insider who talks like an outsider and has promised to revamp the institution and make a clean break from his predecessors.

From MarketWatch • May 13, 2026

Can Mamata Banerjee reinvent herself once more - returning to the streets as the furious outsider who first captured Bengal's imagination?

From BBC • May 5, 2026

According to Newton, Los Angeles was considered an outsider outpost in an art world dominated by New York City.

From Los Angeles Times • May 5, 2026

And now I’ve stumbled on a fellow outsider, one who speaks my language without saying a word.

From "Orphan Train" by Christina Baker Kline