outcasts

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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

Justice Brett Kavanaugh has called same-sex marriage a “very important right” and declared that gay Americans “cannot be treated as social outcasts or as inferior in dignity and worth.”

From Slate • Aug. 13, 2025

When that did not happen, Garnacho was ordered to train at different times to Amorim's squad, along with fellow outcasts Tyrell Malacia, Jadon Sancho, Antony and Marcus Rashford, who subsequently joined Barcelona on loan.

From BBC • Aug. 7, 2025

Of course we had to make our own way, just like Jules and Aileen—the four of us, outcasts mounting our own private and necessary revolution.

From "Tradition" by Brendan Kiely