noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
political
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A former Agrarian Reform Secretary, who campaigned as a political outsider .
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He is a political outsider , while Dole has been in Washington for 35 years.
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From the outset, Mrs Thatcher had the sense of being a political outsider .
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And he could no longer present himself as a political outsider .
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He lied when he ran for governor on the platform of being a successful businessman and political outsider .
rank
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So I went to Ladbrokes and picked two rank outsiders and put some money on them and left.
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Last year he started as a rank outsider for the title.
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Though ridden by Graham McCourt, then third in the jump jockeys' table, Norton's Coin was a rank outsider .
■ VERB
appear
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Education is being pushed more towards being an instrument of national policy, or so it would appear to an outsider .
become
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To cross them was to break tradition, to sever one's links and become an outsider .
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The babies became outsiders like Frankenstein's creation became an outsider when he was rejected.
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Shift the context and the same men become insiders as opposed to outsiders such as catholics and, presumably, even castle catholics.
feel
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That made me feel a bit of an outsider .
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Thus, whether one feels like an outsider or an insider, the story can be equally enchanting.
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Others feel outsiders are scuppering their chance of the bypass they have long wanted.
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They came from growing up always feeling he was an outsider and an outcast.
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Here he had always felt an outsider .
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Students do not need to be victims of racism, sexism, religious discrimination, or homophobia to feel like outsiders .
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Masha Cohen had always felt an outsider , vis-á-vis her more Westernised sisters-in-law.
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I always felt like an outsider around kids who did.
seem
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It can hold couples together in a way that may seem to the outsider against all reason.
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What seems clear to an outsider , however, is that in the Fouassis family survival seemed a precarious business.
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That's how it seemed to the mystified outsider .
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And the tenure of conductors, as of managers, can end in tears for reasons that seem incomprehensible to outsiders .
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The boom in dating services might seem odd to outsiders .
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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An outsider , for example someone from another school district, should evaluate the teachers.
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He started as a no-hoper -- a rank outsider for the title.
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Italian residents don't like to discuss the matter with outsiders.
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Smith, a little-known outsider with limited political experience, came from behind to score a surprise victory.
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The defending champion was beaten by an outsider in the first round.
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The university library is closed to outsiders.
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They've treated us like outsiders ever since we moved in.
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To outsiders, these ideological battles seem completely pointless.
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We don't want outsiders getting involved in our local politics.
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Why do they bring in outsiders to tell us how to run the business?
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Here he had always felt an outsider .
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It means coming to a new country, always being the outsider , always having to adjust.
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They are often abandoned and eager for contact with outsiders.
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They were outsiders, too, and he determined he would stand by them as long as he could.
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This process has included verbal denigration as well as cruel and unusual treatment of those who are traditionally perceived as outsiders.
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To the outsider , the civilian, beat work was directed at controlling the street population.
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Whatever the truth, it is always convenient to blame outsiders for creating trouble.