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Russia has become a pariah to the G7 because of [its] invasion.
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Yvonne Lau, Fortune, 15 Sep. 2022
In the meantime, some see Biden as having compromised on some of his promises to put human rights at the center of his agenda, including a pledge to make Saudi Arabia a pariah because of the brutal murder of U.S.-based journalist Jamal Khashoggi and other attempts to silence dissidents.
—Noah Bierman, Los Angeles Times, 1 Aug. 2022
Lee was viewed as a pariah by many afterward, and subjected to death threats, but her qualms about granting a president too much power are now echoed by politicians in both parties.
—Staff Writer
follow, Los Angeles Times, 20 Feb. 2023
The Democrats are helping a far-right election denier who has become a pariah within her party in her race against a less extreme, but still election-denying, conservative.
—BostonGlobe.com, 14 Feb. 2023
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Yvonne Lau, Fortune, 15 Sep. 2022
In the meantime, some see Biden as having compromised on some of his promises to put human rights at the center of his agenda, including a pledge to make Saudi Arabia a pariah because of the brutal murder of U.S.-based journalist Jamal Khashoggi and other attempts to silence dissidents.
—Noah Bierman, Los Angeles Times, 1 Aug. 2022
Lee was viewed as a pariah by many afterward, and subjected to death threats, but her qualms about granting a president too much power are now echoed by politicians in both parties.
—Staff Writer
follow, Los Angeles Times, 20 Feb. 2023
The Democrats are helping a far-right election denier who has become a pariah within her party in her race against a less extreme, but still election-denying, conservative.
—BostonGlobe.com, 14 Feb. 2023
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for pariah
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Duvall played town outcast, Boo Radley, opposite Gregory Peck’s Atticus Finch and Mary Badham’s Scout.Brendan Le, People.com, 5 Jan. 2025
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Gary Oldman leads a tremendous cast in this series about MI5 outcasts confined to Slough House.Erik Kain, Forbes, 4 Jan. 2025
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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, airmail.news, 3 Oct. 2024
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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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Led by the foul-mouthed and fouler-smelling Jackson Lamb (Gary Oldman), the team of rejects consists of River Cartwright (Jack Lowden), Roddy Ho (Christopher Chung), Louisa Guy (Rosalind Eleazar) and Catherine Standish (Saskia Reeves) among others including newcomer, J.K. Coe (Thomas Brooke).Erik Kain, Forbes, 15 Oct. 2024
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The true stab here isn’t just that Donald lied to Roy on his deathbed, or that Donald would so callously reject the friend who turned him from an outer-borough reject into a mover and shaker within Manhattan.Constance Grady, Vox, 7 Dec. 2018
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“Pariah.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/pariah. Accessed 17 Jan. 2025.
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