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
To Spanish actor and nobleman José Luis de Vilallonga, Chez Régine was “a leper colony for the overprivileged.”
From Washington Post ● May 2, 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
“She didn’t want anyone coming to look for me or treating me like a leper, whether I was one or not.”
From "Beyond the Bright Sea" by Lauren Wolk
“The world is cursed,” says one of the lepers, “but still you find reasons to keep living.”
From Salon ● Jul. 22, 2026
“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
We’re dodging each other like lepers on a sunny spring day, prospecting for toilet paper in the grocery aisles, washing our hands until they become wounds unto themselves.
From Washington Post ● Apr. 8, 2020
“Marie is interested in helping lepers all over the world,” Father Torralba explains.
From "At Last She Stood" by Erin Entrada Kelly
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