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- noun The state or condition of being an
outsider .
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Examples
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In what is perhaps her richest and most deeply searching novel, Anne Tyler gives us a story about what it is to be an American, and about Maryam Yazdan, who after thirty-five years in this country must finally come to terms with her 'outsiderness.'
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As he was originally written, and as Leonard Nimoy started off playing him, Spock dealt with his outsiderness by trying to erase one cause of it.
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SIEGEL: And first, this idea of outsiderness or outsiderliness, whatever, you've interviewed presidents, presidential candidates, you've been at the White House.
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I am not convinced that [Caldwell's] attempt to move the conversation to a question of who owns the means of literary production does anything more than nudge us toward a severe reification of outsiderness, an anti-brand mandarinism.
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SIEGEL: And first, this idea of outsiderness or outsiderliness, whatever, you've interviewed presidents, presidential candidates, you've been at the White House.
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SIEGEL: And first, this idea of outsiderness or outsiderliness, whatever, you've interviewed presidents, presidential candidates, you've been at the White House.
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I am not convinced that [Caldwell's] attempt to move the conversation to a question of who owns the means of literary production does anything more than nudge us toward a severe reification of outsiderness, an anti-brand mandarinism.
OCD 2009
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I am not convinced that [Caldwell's] attempt to move the conversation to a question of who owns the means of literary production does anything more than nudge us toward a severe reification of outsiderness, an anti-brand mandarinism.
October 2009 2009
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SIEGEL: And first, this idea of outsiderness or outsiderliness, whatever, you've interviewed presidents, presidential candidates, you've been at the White House.
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Mr. Gingrich in the 1980s was hungry and ambitious, and no one had prepared the way for him, which is actually his firmest claim on outsiderness: he was no fortunate son.
The GOP Takes a Wild Ride Peggy Noonan 2012
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