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Recent Examples of leper
The town serves as the backdrop for what many surrounding the production consider the creative high point of the season — an episode 5 spaghetti western side mission that involves lepers, eye-gauging vultures, and a train pulled by zombies.
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Dalton Ross, EW.com, 26 Aug. 2025
Where we're not shunned as criminals or treated like lepers.
—Ryan Hampton, Time, 28 May 2025
We are reminded of the story of the Buddha and the leper.
—Rabbi Dana Magat, The Mercury News, 18 Mar. 2025
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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Dalton Ross, EW.com, 26 Aug. 2025
Where we're not shunned as criminals or treated like lepers.
—Ryan Hampton, Time, 28 May 2025
We are reminded of the story of the Buddha and the leper.
—Rabbi Dana Magat, The Mercury News, 18 Mar. 2025
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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Unfortunate outcast kids Lilly (Clara Stack), Ronnie (Amanda Christine), Phil (Jack Molloy Legault) and Terry (Mikkal Karim Fidler) are at the center of the mysterious disappearances and the supernatural horrors, to their very poor luck and dismay of the adults in their lives.—
Kelly Lawler,
USA Today,
23 Oct. 2025
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This film is truly the stuff of teen-outcast nightmares.—
Emma Specter,
Vogue,
19 Oct. 2025
Noun
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This suggests that the Kinahans remain bedfellows with geopolitical pariahs.—
Ed Caesar,
New Yorker,
20 Oct. 2025
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Long ensnared in his long relationship with the now deceased Epstein, who supposedly committed suicide while in police custody in 2019, Andrew has become a public pariah to his image-conscious family since his mother’s death in 2022.—
Dominic Patten,
Deadline,
17 Oct. 2025
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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
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The 14 remaining castaways morphed into two tribes of seven, with the original Hina holding a majority alliance in one tribe, while the original Uli held a majority in the other.—
Anthony Robledo,
USA Today,
16 Oct. 2025
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In 48 seasons, not a single Survivor castaway has been removed from the game as a result of an animal attack.—
Nick Caruso,
TVLine,
10 Oct. 2025
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“Leper.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/leper. Accessed 29 Oct. 2025.
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