outside of

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Preposition

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outside of

  1. Outside.
  2. Aside from; besides.
    • 1913, Joseph C[rosby] Lincoln, chapter V, in Mr. Pratt’s Patients, New York, N.Y., London: D[aniel] Appleton and Company, →OCLC, pages 115–116:
      Of all the queer collections of humans outside of a crazy asylum, it seemed to me this sanitarium was the cup winner. [] When you're well enough off so's you don't have to fret about anything but your heft or your diseases you begin to get queer, I suppose.
    • 1954, Jim Brewer, Boys' Life, volume 44, number 2, Think and Grin, page 78, column 1:
      A book is a man’s best friend outside of a dog, and inside of a dog, it’s too dark to read.

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