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outcast

[out-kast, -kahst] / ˈaʊtˌkæst, -ˌkɑst /


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And so an outcast couple, immoral and ungovernable, served as the vanguard for new European settlements.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 19, 2026

"Here is this wonderful animal who is a little outcast from how the rest of his species is, but who is beloved and treasured and has value," she added.

From BBC • Jan. 19, 2026

She said that I was stingy and mean, an outcast at life’s rich feast.

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 28, 2025

The Yautja are a ruthless culture whose warriors take pride in hunting alone, and Dek’s stubborn adherence to those rules, even as an outcast, is nearly his undoing.

From Salon • Nov. 12, 2025

And the seventh face . . . the Stranger was neither male nor female, yet both, ever the outcast, the wanderer from far places, less and more than human, unknown and unknowable.

From "A Clash of Kings" by George R.R. Martin




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