black sheep
Example Sentences
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Our family is broken beyond repair, and I remain the black sheep.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 7, 2026
While Magyar will only take office next month, his team has already held two rounds of talks with high-ranking EU officials as they look to bring black sheep Budapest back into the fold.
From Barron's ● Apr. 29, 2026
When FTX went down, the organized crypto industry went to great lengths to paint Bankman-Fried as a black sheep.
From Slate ● Mar. 10, 2025
More than a black sheep, but rather a pink sheep, was how Sencion felt growing up as a queer child of Mexican immigrants on the Eastside of L.A.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 8, 2024
Over the course of the next few years Esteban Trueba kept abreast of the black sheep of the family through Blanca s sporadic correspondence with him.
From "The House of the Spirits: A Novel" by Isabel Allende
