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  2. Alien (law) - Wikipedia

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    Since the U.S. law says that a corporation is a person, [4] the term alien is not limited to natural humans because what are colloquially called foreign corporations are technically called alien corporations. Because corporations are creations of local state law, a foreign corporation is an out-of-state corporation.

  3. Alien - Wikipedia

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    Alien primarily refers to: Alien (law), a person in a country who is not a national of that country Enemy alien, the above in times of war; Extraterrestrial life ...

  4. Gaijin - Wikipedia

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    Gaijin (外人, [ɡai(d)ʑiɴ]; 'outsider, alien') is a Japanese word for foreigners and non-Japanese citizens in Japan, specifically being applied to foreigners of non-Japanese ethnicity and those from the Japanese diaspora who are not Japanese citizens. [1] The word is composed of two kanji: gai (外, 'outside') and jin (人, 'person').

  5. California to replace the word 'alien' from its laws - AOL

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    California will strike the word “alien” from its state laws, getting rid of what Gov. Gavin Newsom called “an offensive term for a human being” that has “fueled a divisive and hurtful ...

  6. Extraterrestrial life - Wikipedia

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    For example, during the Barney and Betty Hill incident, the first recorded claim of an alien abduction, the couple reported that they were abducted and experimented on by aliens with oversized heads, big eyes, pale grey skin, and small noses, a description that eventually became the grey alien archetype once used in works of fiction. [173]

  7. List of English–Spanish interlingual homographs - Wikipedia

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    The cognates in the table below share meanings in English and Spanish, but have different pronunciation. Some words entered Middle English and Early Modern Spanish indirectly and at different times. For example, a Latinate word might enter English by way of Old French, but enter Spanish directly from Latin. Such differences can introduce ...

  8. Ancient astronauts - Wikipedia

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    However, Dakota/Lakota Sioux writer Ruth H. Burns, in Atmos magazine, counters that ancient alien theory and the idea of extraterrestrials in general supports the viewpoints of indigenous, non-European peoples. She believes the denial of extraterrestrial encounters and indigenous peoples’ stories tracing their origins to extraterrestrials is ...

  9. Profanity in science fiction - Wikipedia

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    Profanity in science fiction (Sci-Fi) shares all of the issues of profanity in fiction in general, but has several unique aspects of its own, including the use of alien profanities (such as the alien expletive "shazbot!" from Mork & Mindy, a word that briefly enjoyed popular usage outside of that television show [1]).