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Recent Examples of leperMeanwhile, in a remote leper village, a handsome stranger brings hope with miraculous cures until doubts grow about whether his help may come at a terrible cost.—Liz Shackleton, Deadline, 19 Sep. 2025 Remember, the Lord Jesus did not fear lepers, and leprosy was (and continues to be) a highly contagious infectious disease.—Beth Mole, ArsTechnica, 15 Sep. 2025 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.—Dalton Ross, EW.com, 26 Aug. 2025 We are reminded of the story of the Buddha and the leper.—Rabbi Dana Magat, The Mercury News, 18 Mar. 2025 See All Example Sentences for leper
Carradine plays Lewis as an outcast who’s completely aware of the way others perceive and reject him, yet chooses to be relentlessly, willfully, almost foolishly optimistic.
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Jim Hemphill,
IndieWire,
25 Feb. 2026
If 12-step groups are the place for misfits and outcasts to find each other, then the Yellow Balloon folk and the Dopes of Dopey Nation are the fringe of the fringe — the misfits of the misfits, the outcasts of the outcasts.
First, go back a week to the moment that made Bridgeman a temporary pariah.
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Brody Miller,
New York Times,
23 Feb. 2026
After the gruesome 2018 killing of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi in his country’s consulate in Istanbul, the crown prince became an international pariah.
New rejects include four additional variations of 04FCSK and several other attempts at sneaking in the f-word, including 0F0KS and 0FUX4U. Other additions include:
1. 0GB0SS
2. 0HCR4P
3. B4DAZZ
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CBS News,
CBS News,
14 Jan. 2026
These days, the aviary houses parakeets that are mostly rejects from friends whose kids got bored with them.