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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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Without his mother’s overbearing glare, Ed becomes romantically involved with Adeline Watkins (Suzanna Son), an intriguing outcast in town, and begins indulging in a spree of gruesome crimes that would later shock the nation.—
Aramide Tinubu,
Variety,
3 Oct. 2025
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The 2000 coming-of-age comedy starred Patrick Fugit as a high school outcast in 1973 who gets chosen to write a Rolling Stone profile for an up-and-coming rock band called Stillwater.—
Emily Blackwood,
PEOPLE,
13 Sep. 2025
Noun
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Under Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, the world's only Jewish state is increasingly seen as an international pariah because of the scale of Palestinian deaths in Gaza.—
Romina Ruiz-Goiriena,
USA Today,
4 Oct. 2025
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Between the 1950s and 1990s, South Africa faced a strong boycott movement that, little by little, turned it into a pariah.—
Lauren Kent,
CNN Money,
28 Sep. 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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These new Survivor castaways are jazzed beyond belief, and who wouldn’t be?—
Nick Caruso,
TVLine,
24 Sep. 2025
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Petty received a number of congratulatory messages in her comments, including from a few other Survivor castaways.—
Hannah Sacks,
PEOPLE,
24 Sep. 2025
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“Leper.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/leper. Accessed 8 Oct. 2025.
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