nonperson

Example Sentences

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But what does that mean for a nonperson?

From New York Times

When Swann denounces the persecution of the Jewish army captain Alfred Dreyfus, wrongly accused of treason, he becomes a nonperson and, along with other "Dreyfusards," is blacklisted.

From Salon

He soon was rendered a nonperson within the Soviet Union, as his successor Leonid Brezhnev assumed the leadership.

From Seattle Times

Her old friends shun her as a nonperson.

From New York Times

Not only was Paul Robeson — another great athlete of that first wave era — reduced to an Orwellian nonperson for all practical purposes.

From Washington Post