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Meanings of so alien in English

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Usage of so alien in English
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There are few things so familiar yet so alien as the sun.
The Irish Times
2
Maybe we're just not seeing it because it's so alien to us.
Hollow World
3
I did care about this alien who no longer seemed so alien.
The Andalite Chronicles
4
Nowhere else in India did I feel so foreign, so alien.
Roving East and Roving West
5
The conditions are just so alien to a lot of them.
The Guardian
6
Trade, not war-isthat so alien that you cannot envisage it?
The Only Victor
7
Laughter was so alien to this moment that it startled him.
Helen of troy
8
Except pedantry, nothing is so alien from him as the assumption of goodness.
The History of Roman Literature / From the Earliest Period to th...
9
Doing them shows in the states is so alien and amazing to me.
Independent.ie
10
Couldn't credit his eyes because what he saw was so alien.
Orb Sceptre Throne
11
That academic intellectualising of what you're up to is so alien to me.
The Guardian
12
I cannot play 'Willow Branches' any more, so alien is sadness to me.
Messer Marco Polo
13
Others would be so different, so alien, that we could barely look at them.
James Potter and the Vault of Destinies
14
Idealism was so alien to his nature that he could not raise an objection.
Solar
15
No human being has ever experienced what she has, nor touched anything so alien.
Children of Time
16
But the style was so alien to me, she says.
The Guardian
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United States of America
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United Kingdom
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