as in foreigner
a person who is not native to or known to a community
the people of the island are quick to make strangers feel at home
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Recent Examples of stranger
This behavior often occurs when one feline from a multi-cat household returns home after being away—such as a visit to the vet or groomer—and is suddenly treated like a stranger by the cat that stayed behind.
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Lucy Notarantonio, MSNBC Newsweek, 18 July 2025
Your company has an unexpected effect on a stranger as the moon and Uranus harmonize.
—Usa Today, USA Today, 11 July 2025
Each opens with the customary intro to the dichotomy of mild-mannered Clark Kent and the amazing stranger from the planet Krypton — Superman.
—Kambole Campbell, Vulture, 10 July 2025
In the rising steam, watching the swirl of dust collect around her drain, funneling downward like sand in an hourglass, Lily stopped to think: There was a man in her house, a stranger!
—Literary Hub, 9 July 2025
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Lucy Notarantonio, MSNBC Newsweek, 18 July 2025
Your company has an unexpected effect on a stranger as the moon and Uranus harmonize.
—Usa Today, USA Today, 11 July 2025
Each opens with the customary intro to the dichotomy of mild-mannered Clark Kent and the amazing stranger from the planet Krypton — Superman.
—Kambole Campbell, Vulture, 10 July 2025
In the rising steam, watching the swirl of dust collect around her drain, funneling downward like sand in an hourglass, Lily stopped to think: There was a man in her house, a stranger!
—Literary Hub, 9 July 2025
See All Example Sentences for stranger
Recent Examples of Synonyms for stranger
Noun
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Cuba began to attract international tourism, and with it, the government created a sort of tourism apartheid, whereby Cubans were not allowed to enter resort hotels where foreigners sunbathed and drank mojitos by the pool.—
Jane Ciabattari
July 22,
Literary Hub,
22 July 2025
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The latest revival of this performance comes courtesy of the United Kingdom, where the government closed a centuries-old tax loophole that let wealthy foreigners reside in the U.K. but insist their income did not.—
Andrew Leahey,
Forbes.com,
20 July 2025
Noun
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Haruko is an alien and is chasing something enormously powerful and equally mysterious, and Naota and the robot Canti clearly have something to do with it.—
Ollie Barder,
Forbes.com,
14 July 2025
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Superman happens to be both: a square-jawed every-Adonis from middle America who is, in fact, an alien.—
Paul A. Thompson,
Pitchfork,
11 July 2025
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“Stranger.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/stranger. Accessed 29 Jul. 2025.
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