outcast
Example Sentences
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Our parish lived and practiced American Catholicism’s long tradition of welcoming the stranger, the outcast, the refugee — following the example and words of the Gospel we read every Sunday.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 19, 2026
“Thomas Jefferson was a man of the world. I’m sure he knew gay people. Sally Hemings was enslaved, so I would think she’d be more empathetic because of being an outcast and an outsider.”
From Salon ● Jul. 27, 2026
No, I was such an outcast that I didn’t know I was outcast!
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 10, 2026
Thomas Harris grew up in the South as a bookish outcast, reading the works of Ernest Hemingway and Jonathan Swift.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 2, 2026
This was a persona I'd been tinkering with myself: the outcast, the rebel.
From "Me Talk Pretty One Day" by David Sedaris
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Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
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