outcasts

Example Sentences

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But Mary is different from the superpowered variety of the trope, or the brilliant outcasts in teen movies like “Mean Girls,” “Sixteen Candles,” “The Edge of Seventeen” or “The Perks of Being a Wallflower.”

From Salon • May 20, 2026

New York was “a crucible where ordinary people, artists, and outcasts brushed shoulders with superstars in the making,” Mr. Ferrando writes.

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 21, 2025

He’s someone who, despite his own tremendous loss, is determined to keep doing what’s right and see the best in people — including demons who often were social outcasts before they were turned.

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 12, 2025

Justice Brett Kavanaugh has called same-sex marriage a “very important right” and declared that gay Americans “cannot be treated as social outcasts or as inferior in dignity and worth.”

From Slate • Aug. 13, 2025

There was only Mr. Brown, the genial, stocky, sandy-haired English teacher from New York—official school liberal, magnet for and friend of outcasts.

From "Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho" by Jon Katz