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feel out of place

Idioms  
  1. see under out of place.


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"The gym just feels like there's like-minded people there. I just don't feel out of place or anything like that," she says.

From BBC ● Mar. 21, 2026

Chau said the severe lack of Challengers extras makes it feel out of place in her physical media collection, which is growing with the help of special releases from boutique labels.

From Slate ● Jun. 19, 2024

But Marjan is a true believer, a watcher of English-language rom-coms who lived in Manchester for nine years and now seems to feel out of place in Iran.

From Seattle Times ● Apr. 8, 2024

“And I’d love a space, ideally in Brooklyn, where there would be Persian street food. It’d be a place for people who might feel out of place at another brewery. That’s the dream.”

From Washington Post ● Feb. 10, 2023

The crowd at the Plaza would most likely be dressed up, and I worried that she might feel out of place in an outfit most people associate with hard manual labor.

From "Me Talk Pretty One Day" by David Sedaris

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