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Recent Examples of pariahs
Traditionally, scientists and doctors who have questioned vaccine safety, and even the benefits of vaccines, have quickly become pariahs.
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Will Carless, USA Today, 20 Jan. 2026
Few if any of the originators attend now that the Santas are less social pariahs and law breakers and more fraternity brothers and junior bankers.
—Chuck Palahniuk, Vulture, 13 Nov. 2025
This suggests that the Kinahans remain bedfellows with geopolitical pariahs.
—Ed Caesar, New Yorker, 20 Oct. 2025
Advertisement The presence of India’s prime minister provided some democratic gloss to this parade of pariahs.
—Bobby Ghosh, Time, 2 Sep. 2025
The pariahs deemed monstrous, Ne Zha included, might have within them a more commendable moral compass.
—Carlos Aguilar, Variety, 2 Mar. 2025
The Real Deal, a real estate trade publication, first reported on those suits in June, and Oren and Tal quickly tumbled from their perch and became pariahs.
—Debra Kamin, New York Times, 18 Feb. 2025
The Russian leader has used domestic military production to buoy the economy and relied on a network of countries to circumvent international sanctions — from global powers like China and India to international pariahs like Iran and North Korea.
—Laura Kelly, The Hill, 22 Jan. 2025
After Stalin’s death in 1953, expressing discomfort with one’s place in the Communist paradise was no longer necessarily fatal, and a new underclass of pariahs—many poets and scientists among them—became a subversive force.
—Gal Beckerman, The Atlantic, 13 Dec. 2024
Will Carless, USA Today, 20 Jan. 2026
Few if any of the originators attend now that the Santas are less social pariahs and law breakers and more fraternity brothers and junior bankers.
—Chuck Palahniuk, Vulture, 13 Nov. 2025
This suggests that the Kinahans remain bedfellows with geopolitical pariahs.
—Ed Caesar, New Yorker, 20 Oct. 2025
Advertisement The presence of India’s prime minister provided some democratic gloss to this parade of pariahs.
—Bobby Ghosh, Time, 2 Sep. 2025
The pariahs deemed monstrous, Ne Zha included, might have within them a more commendable moral compass.
—Carlos Aguilar, Variety, 2 Mar. 2025
The Real Deal, a real estate trade publication, first reported on those suits in June, and Oren and Tal quickly tumbled from their perch and became pariahs.
—Debra Kamin, New York Times, 18 Feb. 2025
The Russian leader has used domestic military production to buoy the economy and relied on a network of countries to circumvent international sanctions — from global powers like China and India to international pariahs like Iran and North Korea.
—Laura Kelly, The Hill, 22 Jan. 2025
After Stalin’s death in 1953, expressing discomfort with one’s place in the Communist paradise was no longer necessarily fatal, and a new underclass of pariahs—many poets and scientists among them—became a subversive force.
—Gal Beckerman, The Atlantic, 13 Dec. 2024
Recent Examples of Synonyms for pariahs
Noun
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Badly in Love brings together societal outcasts — individuals who have lived beyond conventional rules and etiquette — in search of love and redemption.—
Patrick Brzeski,
HollywoodReporter,
27 Jan. 2026
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There’s a cast of wanderers, visionaries, and itinerants, the self-educated and self-published, a long lineage of cranks and outcasts, mostly penurious, always opinionated, stretching away into the mists of pseudohistory.—
Hari Kunzru,
Harpers Magazine,
27 Jan. 2026
Noun
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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
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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
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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“Pariahs.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/pariahs. Accessed 2 Feb. 2026.
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