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as in foreign
being, relating to, or characteristic of a country other than one's own
they were careful to learn of any alien business customs before trying to expand overseas
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as in irrelevant
not being a vital part of or belonging to something
it's completely alien to her nature to wish evil of anyone
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as in to anger
to cause to change from friendly or loving to unfriendly or uncaring
such angry outbursts will rapidly alien any friends you might possibly have left
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as in to transfer
to give over the legal possession or ownership of
the couple plans to alien the adjoining house lot to their eldest son
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as in stranger
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Recent Examples of alien
Jolene Almendarez, The Enquirer, 2 July 2025
Zach Galifianakis and Billy Magnussen play aliens in human form who are hunting Experiment 626.
—Borys Kit, HollywoodReporter, 26 June 2025
ArsTechnica, 13 July 2025
Besides evil billionaires, Superman has taken on superpowered supervillains, alien invaders and even his clones, as well as human threats like Nazis and the Ku Klux Klan.
—Los Angeles Times, 12 July 2025
Katy Waldman, The New Yorker, 8 Aug. 2022
Neanderthal to alien, and yet strangely well-suited for the modern era.
—Nick Remsen, CNN, 30 Sep. 2021
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Adjective
Clive, the giant alien in Covington Clive is a roughly 30-foot-tall, green alien who scopes out passersby through his magnifying glass in Covington, Kentucky.
—Jolene Almendarez, The Enquirer, 2 July 2025
Zach Galifianakis and Billy Magnussen play aliens in human form who are hunting Experiment 626.
—Borys Kit, HollywoodReporter, 26 June 2025
Verb
Feldman was intrigued by the prospect of making extraterrestrial contact via information: specifically, alien instructions on how to build an instrument that could talk to terrestrial humans.
—ArsTechnica, 13 July 2025
Besides evil billionaires, Superman has taken on superpowered supervillains, alien invaders and even his clones, as well as human threats like Nazis and the Ku Klux Klan.
—Los Angeles Times, 12 July 2025
Noun
But even that description fails to capture what Yagi is after: those parts of us, precious and possibly hostile, which flower in darkness, disintegrate when described, and can be compared only to alien life-forms.
—Katy Waldman, The New Yorker, 8 Aug. 2022
Neanderthal to alien, and yet strangely well-suited for the modern era.
—Nick Remsen, CNN, 30 Sep. 2021
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for alien
Adjective
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Leão also holds a master's degree in communications and a post-grad degree in foreign relations.—
Nicholas Creel,
MSNBC Newsweek,
10 July 2025
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Thus, if domestic rights are licensed to one distributor and foreign rights are license to another, the IRS may take the position that neither distributor is entitled to the deduction.—
Schuyler Moore,
Forbes.com,
10 July 2025
Adjective
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Geography becomes irrelevant when AI handles the grunt work.—
Steven Wolfe Pereira,
Forbes.com,
3 July 2025
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Each cancer journey is different, and others' stories can be irrelevant or trigger fears.—
Brittney Melton,
NPR,
1 July 2025
Verb
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Topline Attorney General Pam Bondi has become the chief lightning rod for those on the right angered by the Department of Justice’s lack of new information regarding disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein—a subject of extensive right-wing conspiracies—with some calling for her firing.—
Sara Dorn,
Forbes.com,
9 July 2025
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But many of the Blues’ outings have been unpleasant because of high temperatures and storms, and six games across the tournament have been paused for poor weather conditions, angering manager Enzo Maresca.—
Dan Bernstein,
Sportico.com,
8 July 2025
Verb
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Osorio-Piedra will now be held without bond in the Detention Center until he can be transferred to the state Department of Corrections.—
arkansasonline.com,
arkansasonline.com,
11 July 2025
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When nobody claimed him, he was transferred to the Rancho Coastal Humane Society through Friends of County Animal Shelters.—
Linda Mcintosh,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
11 July 2025
Noun
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Your company has an unexpected effect on a stranger as the moon and Uranus harmonize.—
USA TODAY,
USA Today,
11 July 2025
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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
Adjective
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Players can also continue to receive external payments from third-party NIL deals.—
Emily Adams,
Hartford Courant,
6 July 2025
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The company’s intelligence platform claims to unify internal and external data sources, allowing investment professionals to ask complex questions in natural language rather than spending time manually aggregating information.—
Boaz Sobrado,
Forbes.com,
5 July 2025
Verb
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In the following years, the relationship between Musk and Altman soured, with Musk departing in 2018 after reportedly trying to take over leadership of the company, which failed.—
Eleanor Pringle,
Fortune,
9 July 2025
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Those internal discussions have soured some of the morale on the foundation models team, also known as AFM, in recent weeks.—
Bloomberg,
Mercury News,
8 July 2025
Verb
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No matter how much new manufacturing is built in the U.S., many of the materials still only come from China and any delays or missteps cede more ground to China in the middle of a brawl for AI dominance as China rapidly builds more power from coal to wind and solar.—
Jordan Blum,
Fortune,
3 July 2025
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Canada also had a clear 1.19-0.2 xG advantage thanks to a greater quantity and quality of chances created, but fully ceded that edge after halftime and was outshot 8-1 (0.04-0.64).—
Jeff Rueter,
New York Times,
30 June 2025
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“Alien.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/alien. Accessed 19 Jul. 2025.
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