leper
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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
Chief among the rudely treated are women of childbearing age and the denizens of a leper colony outside Nazareth’s gates.
From Washington Post • Feb. 16, 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
Set flamboyantly in the Holy Land, a miracle worker has arrived — just as one who, centuries before, healed a desperate leper who came before him after delivery of the Sermon on the Mount.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 23, 2020
Soon she’d be without toes and have a bandage like the leper at the level crossing.
From "The God of Small Things" by Arundhati Roy
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