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Discover LudwigThe phrase "as outsider" is not correct in written English; it should be "as an outsider." You can use it when referring to someone who is not part of a particular group or situation, often to provide a perspective that is different from those who are involved.
Example: "As an outsider, I noticed several issues that the team seemed to overlook."
Alternatives: "from an external perspective" or "as a non-member."
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But more often, perhaps when we get a little lazy, it's described as "outsider" ― as in, outside the mainstream artistic institution. .
You might describe what she did as outsider art, if Carnegie Hall could be called outside.
For Neilson, the artist as outsider is a powerful myth.
How do you classify it — as outsider art, self-taught art or sociological artifacts?
Storyboard conceives of his own work, in politically pointed terms, as outsider art.
The figure Martin and Meyers depict obeys 21st-century expectations about the artist as outsider.
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There are hundreds of them knocking around, and they're all just as outsider-y as vampires and werewolves.
These shibboleths so immediately, so indelibly, so inconveniently brand us as outsiders.
The teenage-girl-as-outsider novel has a venerable tradition, one that predates even the very notion of teenager — think Jo in "Little Women".
As outsiders, you don't know this.
You came in as outsiders.
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