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• The various engineering teams' correspondence on circuit board design was an alphabet soup to outsiders.From the entry alphabet soup
• Reclaimed words like "queer" or "gay" are usually offensive to the in-group when used by outsiders.From the entry reclaimed
• A portion of the office was cordoned off during the outsiders' tour.From the entry cordon off
• Outsiders visiting the facility must be accompanied by a passholding employee.From the entry passholding
• The lushly verdant jungle harbored many plants unknown to outsiders.From the entry lushly
• Most were also outsiders in the overheated corridors of power at the Vatican.2025 April 21, Peter Stanford, “Pope Francis obituary”, in The Guardian. From the entry coalface
• In theory at least, that leaves more room for outsiders to pressure the government.2017 May 20, Jan-Werner Müller, “Hungary: The War on Education”, in The New York Review of Books. From the entry Huxit
• Some of the actors were locals, others outsiders who odd-jobbed it while they performed.2016, Harry Turtledove, Typecasting, →ISBN. From the entry odd-job
• Cryptoforests are social rejects, urban outsiders and cryptoforestry is an anarchic and primitivist 'art brut'.2010, Wilfred Hou Je Bek, Cryptoforestry. From the entry cryptoforestry
• Despite being regarded as outsiders, these Wahhabi radicals helped in jihadising the tribes in the frontier region.2008, India Today International, number 27, page 32. From the entry jihadise
• The Palestinians insisted on both outsiders and an East Jerusalemite on the delegation.2005, Dennis Ross, The Missing Peace, →ISBN, page 62. From the entry East Jerusalemite
• Workers and outsiders villainize managers and leaders for not sharing benefits and rewards created by business.1997, Richard H. Reeves, Business, commerce, and social responsibility: beyond agenda. From the entry villainize
• Similarly, the black British are always depicted as outsiders to British culture.1996, Mantia Diawara, “Black British cinema: spectatorship and identity formation in Territories”, in Houston A. Baker, Manthia Diawara…. From the entry Black British
• With little political experience, Hofeld is portraying himself as an outsider, an antipolitician.1992 February 21, James Hawking, “More Than 30 Seconds With Al Hofeld”, in Chicago Reader. From the entry antipolitician
• Because of our homosexuality the Black community casts us as outsiders.1986, Joseph Beam, “Introduction”, in In The Life, page 17. From the entry poor relation
• Like the processing industry, the Unalaskan fishing fleet is dominated by outsiders.1985, Lawrence A. Palinkas, Bruce Murray Harris, John S. Petterson, A systems approach to social impact assessment: two Alaskan case studies. From the entry Unalaskan
• Reform here was a tenuous thing, dependent upon the ebb and flow of outsiders’ ambitions.1978, Angus W. McDonald, Jr., “Power”, in The Urban Origins of Rural Revolution: Elites and the Masses in Hunan Province, China…. From the entry Fujian
• Outsiders who scoffed at this profligacy misunderstood the masquerade.2025 June 27, Michael M. Grynbaum, “The Concorde-and-Caviar Era of Condé Nast, When Magazines Ruled the Earth”, in The New York Times, →ISSN. From the entry profligacy
• The smokers' most raffish outsider, Comstock, appeared to do nothing but smoke; Chris had never seen him inside the building.2022, Jennifer Egan, “i, the Protagonist”, in The Candy House. From the entry raffish
• I've been an outsider so many times.2015, Jen Hatmaker, Ms. Understood: Rebuilding the Feminine Equation. From the entry Christiany
• Furthermore, what initially was the main domain of record labels—the financing of music productions—was also inroaded by business outsiders.2012, Peter Tschmuck, “The Digital Music Revolution”, in Creativity and Innovation in the Music Industry, Heidelberg, Baden-Württemberg…. From the entry inroad
• More than an outsider he was an in-betweener; caught between two cultures all the while shunning his own.2011, Wayne Purdy, A Juniper Through The Cracks, page 86. From the entry inbetweener
• The viewer as outsider is invited to contemplate the ‘primitive vitality’ of an alien, multi-ethnic, and lower-class culture.2007, Wanda Balzano, Anne Mulhall, Moynagh Sullivan, Irish Postmodernisms and Popular Culture, Basingstoke, Hampshire; New York, N.Y.…. From the entry meet cute
• Outsider Art is increasingly recognized as a representation of the purest and most direct form of artistic creation.2006, Liz Aggiss, Billy Cowie ed., Anarchic Dance, Routledge, →ISBN, page 48. From the entry outsider art
• Remote and unknown to outsiders, that is: the Changtang is also home to about half a million nomadic herders, or drokba.2005, Nick Middleton, Extremes Along the Silk Road: Adventures off the World's Oldest Superhighway, John Murray, →ISBN, →OCLC, →OL, page 131. From the entry Changtang
• As with employee crime, the best protections against attacks by outsiders are matters of common sense, say security experts.1999, Mark Fisch, Criminology, 1999-2000, page 103. From the entry Swiss cheese
• Ancient tradition said that Mycenae was founded by the Perseid dynasty and that the Atreids (Pelops, Atreus, Agamemnon) were outsiders.1998, Michael Wood, In Search of the Trojan War, page 157. From the entry Atreid
• For the last year, the entire covenstead had noticed an increase in the number of outsiders on their properties.1995, Silver RavenWolf, Beneath a Mountain Moon, published 2005, page 104. From the entry covenstead
• The ministry may have been more anxious to sell property in the Chang-pin Zone than DuPont or other outsiders realized.1992, James Reardon-Anderson, Pollution, Politics, and Foreign Investment in Taiwan: The Lukang Rebellion, M. E. Sharpe, →ISBN, →LCCN…. From the entry Chang-hua
• But in Whalsay his distance from those bereaved has an added dimension, for he is an outsider, a soothmoother.1987, Anthony Paul Cohen, Whalsay: Symbol, Segment, and Boundary in a Shetland Island Community. From the entry soothmoother
• When outsiders heard the melodies of Johann Sebastian Bach in a single-voice, monophonic square wave, no harmony, they were universally unfazed.1984, Steven Levy, chapter 1, in Hackers: Heroes of the Computer Revolution. From the entry unfazed
• Many farm practices may seem to the outsider to be cruel, but you have to be cruel to be kind.1960 Sep., Thomas Templeton Murray, “Animals Protection Bill”, in parliamentary debates (House of Representatives), volume 324, page 2193. From the entry be cruel to be kind
• No longer was there any doubt at the next callover this rank outsider would be the odds-on favourite!1955, Henry Hall, Here's to the Next Time: The Autobiography of Henry Hall, page 235. From the entry callover
• “The fellow is an absolute outsider, anyone can see that.1920, Agatha Christie, The Mysterious Affair at Styles, London: Pan Books, published 1954, page 7. From the entry cotton to
• Outsider art could not be stopped.2022 March 3, Roberta Smith, “The Outsider Art Fair Returns, in Top Form”, in The New York Times, →ISSN. From the entry outsider art

Meaning of outsider

1. noun Someone who is not part of a particular community, profession, organization etc.; a person coming from elsewhere, having no special knowledge.
2. noun Someone who does not fit into conventional society; a misfit; an iconoclast.
3. noun A competitor or contestant who has little chance of winning; a long shot.

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How do you use outsider in a sentence?

Outsider is used as a noun. For example: “While the initiated easily understand the symbols, they are wholly inaccessible to outsiders.”

What is a short sentence with outsider?

“Outsider art could not be stopped.”

What does outsider mean?

Outsider means someone who is not part of a particular community, profession, organization etc.; a person coming from elsewhere, having no special knowledge.