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Recent Examples of leper
Not to die having lived my last days as a leper.
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Lee Chang-Dong, The New Yorker, 22 Dec. 2024
But one thing’s for sure—there were some among them who chose to become lepers.
—Lee Chang-Dong, The New Yorker, 22 Dec. 2024
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
Winning Is Everything, Stupid, by Matt Tyrnauer, goes deep into what shaped James Carville’s incorrigible character, including his Catholic, working-class youth in Carville—a Louisiana town with fewer than 900 inhabitants, almost half of them inmates at the local leper colony.
—airmail.news, 3 Oct. 2024
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Lee Chang-Dong, The New Yorker, 22 Dec. 2024
But one thing’s for sure—there were some among them who chose to become lepers.
—Lee Chang-Dong, The New Yorker, 22 Dec. 2024
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
Winning Is Everything, Stupid, by Matt Tyrnauer, goes deep into what shaped James Carville’s incorrigible character, including his Catholic, working-class youth in Carville—a Louisiana town with fewer than 900 inhabitants, almost half of them inmates at the local leper colony.
—airmail.news, 3 Oct. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for leper
Noun
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Normalizing the outcast is a staple of teen stories, helping angsty adolescents recognize and accept their own strange behavior by spotting it in their cool onscreen stand-in.—
Ben Travers,
IndieWire,
6 Aug. 2025
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Class is back in session at Nevermore Academy—the supernatural outcasts of Netflix’s Wednesday return to school for an even spookier second season.—
Malik Peay,
Essence,
5 Aug. 2025
Noun
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The Biden administration repeatedly used such votes to depict Russia as a pariah state.—
Dave Lawler,
Axios,
4 Mar. 2025
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The pariahs deemed monstrous, Ne Zha included, might have within them a more commendable moral compass.—
Carlos Aguilar,
Variety,
2 Mar. 2025
Noun
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Wellington’s Burgess promises that individual investors in the Wellington-Vanguard-Blackstone product will have access to the same private funds as Blackstone’s institutional clients—not the rejects.—
Hank Tucker,
Forbes.com,
24 July 2025
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There were some rejects that actually seemed appealing, such as 2NDWIND, which would give the impression that driver is in a good place, maybe even starting a new career, hobby or sports.—
Staff report,
Hartford Courant,
13 June 2025
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“Leper.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/leper. Accessed 20 Aug. 2025.
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