strangers

Example Sentences

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What started as a question of what smells good has become something else — small moments of recognition between many people who, just hours earlier, had been total strangers.

From Los Angeles Times • May 19, 2026

They would render some parents legal strangers to the children they are already raising, potentially leaving those kids without recognized parents at all.

From Slate • May 13, 2026

A sluggish residential real-estate market has driven desperate homeowners to ask strangers on the internet for their input.

From MarketWatch • May 13, 2026

Brockman’s journal entries were dissected in the courtroom and broadcast to strangers around the world because they’re a window into what OpenAI’s leaders were thinking during that period.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 9, 2026

But instead I fanned myself and gave a friendly curtsy, nearly overcome with relief that the strangers and I were not acquainted.

From "The Detective's Assistant" by Kate Hannigan