stranger
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Stranger still, he knew the friends who had taken me in after everything fell apart — people who had become part of the story I told in the podcast.
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 5, 2026
The cycle begins again, but this time the Stranger explains how he came to find the castle and mysteriously breach its defenses.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 24, 2026
West, one of the grande dames of the movement, got her start at Seattle alt-weekly the Stranger and spent years excoriating fatphobia, online misogyny, and male entitlement for the ur-millennial-feminist site Jezebel.
From Slate • Mar. 31, 2026
You might have recognised it from its use in Arrival, Shutter Island, The Last of Us, Stranger Than Fiction, The Handmaid's Tale, The Innocents... and, perhaps most importantly, an episode of EastEnders.
From BBC • Mar. 12, 2026
Stranger still, the battle could not have ended in death.
From "The Princess Bride" by William Goldman
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