perfect stranger

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Tumbling into the BBC's Maida Vale studios, the band are boisterous and charming, the sort of people to greet a perfect stranger like a long-lost cousin.

From BBC • Jan. 8, 2025

What observations do you have about the meanings we place on things that bond us, or how we connect to someone, even a perfect stranger, or even this idea of fate?

From Salon • Mar. 31, 2023

Normally, I am hesitant to commit to a lengthy first date with a perfect stranger, but I absolutely love theater, and quite frankly, I was both intrigued and delighted by the gesture.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 12, 2019

That morning, in the local coffee shop, a perfect stranger asked me if I was that out-of-town fellow who was going to be sleeping on Jean’s couch that evening.

From New York Times • Feb. 15, 2019

Of course, I was six feet off the deck on the head of a human—a perfect stranger and probably foreign.

From "Secrets at Sea" by Richard Peck