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Spinalonga Island's beauty is juxtaposed with its history as a leper colony.
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Chadner Navarro, Condé Nast Traveler, 21 Aug. 2023
An especially disturbing scene occurs when the women visit a leper colony several miles outside of Saigon and see the patients there, some with missing body parts.
—Diane Scharper, National Review, 21 Dec. 2023
Charlene next takes Tricia to a leper colony, run by nuns, accompanied by an army doctor and two other visitors.
—Joan Silber, The New York Review of Books, 16 Dec. 2021
Once a Wampanoag fishing ground, the island was the site of a natural history school headed by Louis Agassiz in the late 19th century, a leper colony in the early 20th, a juvenile rehabilitation center for troubled boys until 2011, and most recently, a residential drug rehabilitation center.
—Maliya Ellis, BostonGlobe.com, 2 July 2023
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Chadner Navarro, Condé Nast Traveler, 21 Aug. 2023
An especially disturbing scene occurs when the women visit a leper colony several miles outside of Saigon and see the patients there, some with missing body parts.
—Diane Scharper, National Review, 21 Dec. 2023
Charlene next takes Tricia to a leper colony, run by nuns, accompanied by an army doctor and two other visitors.
—Joan Silber, The New York Review of Books, 16 Dec. 2021
Once a Wampanoag fishing ground, the island was the site of a natural history school headed by Louis Agassiz in the late 19th century, a leper colony in the early 20th, a juvenile rehabilitation center for troubled boys until 2011, and most recently, a residential drug rehabilitation center.
—Maliya Ellis, BostonGlobe.com, 2 July 2023
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for leper
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Black British actress Erivo lends complicated, anachronistic ideas about racial prejudice to Elphaba’s outcast status — and Chu goes all in, at one point shifting Elphaba’s mirror reflection from green to dark brown.Armond White, National Review, 27 Nov. 2024
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This ’90s horror flick about a coven of high-school outcasts holds up quite well, as does its dark brand of girl power.Savannah Salazar, Vulture, 25 Nov. 2024
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Russia has been committing crimes against humanity and has become an international pariah.Katya Soldak, Forbes, 19 Feb. 2023
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Syria itself is an international pariah under Western sanctions linked to the war.Mehmet Guzel, Ghaith Alsayed and Suzan Fraser, Anchorage Daily News, 8 Feb. 2023
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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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“Leper.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/leper. Accessed 18 Dec. 2024.
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