aliens 1 of 2

Definition of aliensnext
present tense third-person singular of alien

aliens

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noun

plural of alien

Example Sentences

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Verb
  • LaCava said the change seems like another city policy that angers many residents without major impact.
    David Garrick, San Diego Union-Tribune, 25 Feb. 2026
  • What angers me is thinking about what could have been.
    Caroline Blair, PEOPLE, 12 Dec. 2025
Verb
  • PCmover Professional automatically transfers your apps, files, settings, and even user profiles.
    StackCommerce Team, PC Magazine, 3 Apr. 2026
  • An example of a passive shoulder harness is Hilti’s EXO, which transfers the weight of arms to the hips using springs.
    Srishti Gupta, Interesting Engineering, 24 Mar. 2026
Noun
  • The family near Kabul was among the millions of Afghan refugees who have recently returned from Iran and Pakistan, after both countries launched crackdowns in 2023 on foreigners — particularly Afghans — living in their countries.
    Elena Becatoros, Los Angeles Times, 4 Apr. 2026
  • Like every guide with the foreign tour operator Intourist, she was vaguely affiliated with the secret services (KGB) and so filled out reports about her interactions with foreigners that no one read.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 3 Apr. 2026
Verb
  • Ugh, Salley infuriates me more than people who stop at the top of the subway stairs to check their phone.
    Brian Moylan, Vulture, 26 Feb. 2026
  • No one exemplifies that, and infuriates Twins fans more, than Ortiz.
    Brian Hall, Twin Cities, 5 Feb. 2026
Verb
  • Choosing silence also cedes our right to free speech.
    Jenna Norton, STAT, 12 Mar. 2026
  • The specialization that cedes politics, economics or communication to separate disciplines is, in sociology, an invitation to synthesize and to consider how these broad social processes engage, reinforce or conflict with one another.
    Wendy Nelson Espeland, Mercury News, 11 Feb. 2026
Noun
  • At this, the two strangers returned to a parallel silence for the rest of the flight, both of them thinking about their fathers while trying to think of something else.
    Catherine Lacey, New Yorker, 5 Apr. 2026
  • In 2017, Matthew Herrick sued the dating app Grindr after his ex-boyfriend used fake profiles to harass Herrick and send hundreds of strangers to his home.
    Shannon Bond, NPR, 3 Apr. 2026
Verb
  • The content outrages some people and delights others; publishing more of it advances the meta discourse that’s been layered on top of the actual news, drawing attention from the unfolding conflict itself.
    Charlie Warzel, The Atlantic, 14 Mar. 2026
  • Content that outrages, polarizes or triggers anxiety keeps us watching.
    Avital Pardo, Forbes.com, 3 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • The company assigns a third-party installer to your project.
    Dan Simms, USA Today, 2 Apr. 2026
  • When a customer completes an order online with a participating retailer, SameDay Local automatically matches them to the appropriate vehicle and driver, assigns the route and provides them live near-real-time tracking updates from pickup to delivery.
    Glenn Taylor, Sourcing Journal, 31 Mar. 2026
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“Aliens.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/aliens. Accessed 6 Apr. 2026.

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