outcasts

Example Sentences

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But Mary is different from the superpowered variety of the trope, or the brilliant outcasts in teen movies like “Mean Girls,” “Sixteen Candles,” “The Edge of Seventeen” or “The Perks of Being a Wallflower.”

From Salon • May 20, 2026

With hair down near their eyes, they seemed like dangerous high-school outcasts.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 27, 2026

It makes more sense that the feeling of family promised by rock touring life would appeal to Charlie Brown; it often calls to creative dreamers and outcasts with a subconscious need to belong.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 13, 2026

Often, in places like Sierra Leone, there’s so much stigma attached to TB that those infected are treated as social outcasts by even their family members.

From Slate • Mar. 26, 2025

But even the other outcasts wanted nothing to do with me.

From "Ready Player One: A Novel" by Ernest Cline