leper
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"Hapcheon already had a leper colony," Mr Shim explains.
From BBC ● Aug. 4, 2025
Modified chaulmoogra oil, based on the Ball Method, was distributed worldwide and helped free countless people from isolated leper colonies.
From New York Times ● Apr. 8, 2023
Once he wrote an article about getting dating advice from a charming leper in order to explore “alienation, rejection and isolation” after Gutfeld had gone through the breakup of a long relationship.
From Washington Post ● Jan. 9, 2022
A triumphant McKissick called Wood's supporters "a fringe, rogue group" and vowed to turn them into a "leper colony" by building parallel Republican organizations in their territory.
From Salon ● Sep. 3, 2021
But something more surprising than a leper was waiting for me when I reached Nana Philly’s house: Avery.
From Full of Beans by Jennifer L. Holm
Distillers threw rotten fruit and molasses waste in the gallon to brew with ammonium chloride to produce something called “snake juice,” which was collected by lepers and taken around the city.
From Salon ● Feb. 2, 2025
"I simply hope that people who, in my opinion, have been treated rather like lepers, are now on a journey which treats them as people with a health condition."
From BBC ● May 16, 2022
In the Middle Ages, we put lepers into asylums and strapped them with bells and wooden clappers so we could hear them approach.
From Washington Post ● Mar. 13, 2020
“These are the lepers of our society, and my passion is to be alongside them. Not to judge or lecture but to love them.”
From Washington Times ● Mar. 3, 2018
In some places, lepers had to yell, “Unclean!” and shake a rattle as they walked through the streets.
From "At Last She Stood" by Erin Entrada Kelly
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