pariah
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Myanmar's ex-junta chief Min Aung Hlaing is expected in Thailand on Thursday, making his first trip there since becoming civilian leader as he seeks a return to the diplomatic fold for his pariah state.
From Barron's ● Aug. 4, 2026
Simpson was acquitted, but he never regained the public’s affection or goodwill, and will forever be remembered as a pariah who perhaps got away with literal murder.
From Slate ● Jun. 11, 2026
Beijing has also long served as the main mediator between Kim's pariah regime and the rest of the world.
From BBC ● Jun. 5, 2026
This is the Kafka that has been passed to posterity—the outsider, the pariah, the man condemned to a condition of eternal estrangement.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 15, 2026
I feel like a pariah when I walk through the streets.
From "Catching Fire" by Suzanne Collins
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As a parent, I want the law to step in to protect children from predatory tech companies, and to relieve me of the burden of making my own children social pariahs.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 4, 2026
"Eventually, whole social classes, including many Roma people, could become pariahs in this country with nowhere to go," Kadet warned.
From Barron's ● Oct. 20, 2025
For a brief moment, militias were pariahs to both parties.
From Slate ● Jan. 27, 2025
“We obviously want to collaborate, but we’re seen as the pariahs right now, we’re seen as the bogeymen,” Song said.
From Salon ● Dec. 12, 2024
John Early, a veteran of the Spanish-American War, arrived at Carville in 1918, when patients were treated as prisoners and pariahs rather than people who needed medical care.
From "At Last She Stood" by Erin Entrada Kelly
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