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Recent Examples of leper
Where we're not shunned as criminals or treated like lepers.
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Ryan Hampton, Time, 28 May 2025
In this story, Buddha reaches out to the homeless leper teaching us that true compassion transcends fear and stigma.
—Rabbi Dana Magat, The Mercury News, 18 Mar. 2025
That’s your idea of escaping a leper’s life?
—Lee Chang-Dong, The New Yorker, 22 Dec. 2024
Its history is complicated, having served as a leper colony for a hundred years.
—Juliana Shallcross, Condé Nast Traveler, 6 Feb. 2023
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Ryan Hampton, Time, 28 May 2025
In this story, Buddha reaches out to the homeless leper teaching us that true compassion transcends fear and stigma.
—Rabbi Dana Magat, The Mercury News, 18 Mar. 2025
That’s your idea of escaping a leper’s life?
—Lee Chang-Dong, The New Yorker, 22 Dec. 2024
Its history is complicated, having served as a leper colony for a hundred years.
—Juliana Shallcross, Condé Nast Traveler, 6 Feb. 2023
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for leper
Noun
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Clearly, people feel like outcasts even if the world doesn’t see them that way.—
Selome Hailu,
Variety,
5 Sep. 2025
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Some of these mistruths portrayed the killers as outcasts and, crucially, victims.—
Charlie Warzel,
The Atlantic,
4 Sep. 2025
Noun
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Advertisement The presence of India’s prime minister provided some democratic gloss to this parade of pariahs.—
Bobby Ghosh,
Time,
2 Sep. 2025
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But even the Arctic Council isn't exempt from the reverberations of war in Eastern Europe, and from feeling the impact of the pariah status Russia gained among Western nations in the past few years.—
Ellie Cook,
MSNBC Newsweek,
30 Aug. 2025
Noun
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In it, Jackson Lamb (Oldman), River Cartwright (Jack Lowden) and the rest of the MI5 rejects are on the case — and a bit on the defense.—
Tony Maglio,
HollywoodReporter,
3 Sep. 2025
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As the saying goes, nobody wants to sit at the reject table.—
Pamela N. Danziger,
Forbes.com,
15 Aug. 2025
Noun
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Fantastic Four is a close second, sure, but Florence Pugh leading a group of depressed villain castaways was the film that really felt like more of a return to form for the MCU.—
Savannah Salazar,
Vulture,
30 Aug. 2025
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The spot is owned by Julie Fairweather, the mother of season 49 contestant Shannon Fairweather, and fan-favorite six-time castaway Boston Rob bartended there before going on the CBS show.—
Sabrina Weiss,
People.com,
28 Aug. 2025
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“Leper.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/leper. Accessed 10 Sep. 2025.
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