leper

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

In Connecticut, state officials are re-opening previously closed facilities to create separate nursing homes only for residents who are positive for COVID-19 — like modern-day leper colonies.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 1, 2020

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

“People with AIDs were considered to be the lepers of the time,” Pieters said in a recent interview at his Silver Lake home.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 12, 2023

"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

Mind you, this is the supremely healthy, singing-and-dancing variety of lepers.

From Washington Post ● Feb. 16, 2022

"Jesus went around healing lepers and touched them without fear of getting leprosy," he said.

From Salon ● Nov. 15, 2021

They came upon the road unexpectedly and he stopped the boy with one hand and they crouched in the roadside ditch like lepers and listened.

From "The Road" by Cormac McCarthy