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Recent Examples of leper
But one thing’s for sure—there were some among them who chose to become lepers.
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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
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
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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
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
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for leper
Noun
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Maybe Happy Ending is the offbeat and captivating story of Oliver and Claire, two outcasts near the end of their warranty who discover that even robots can be swept off their feet.—
Erik Pedersen,
Deadline,
24 July 2025
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The likelihood that Canada would ship gas to other markets increased when Russia invaded Ukraine and made Moscow a global trade outcast, said Prof. Kent Fellows, an energy economist at the University of Calgary.—
New York Times,
New York Times,
7 July 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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Dickinson gives us nonjudgmental access to the day-to-day existence of one among any number of unhoused addicts, while Dillane presents Mike with all the prickly edges of a societal reject.—
David Rooney,
HollywoodReporter,
17 May 2025
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The modern reject rejects the academic consensus on everything from the science of vaccines to the benefits of free trade.—
Zack Beauchamp,
Vox,
12 Mar. 2025
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“Leper.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/leper. Accessed 29 Jul. 2025.
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