leper
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We learn that in Romania, for example, the leper colony of Tichilești was one of the only places in the country to lack state informants under the totalitarian Ceaușescu dictatorship.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 4, 2026
"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
Once he wrote an article about getting dating advice from a charming leper in order to explore “alienation, rejection and isolation” after Gutfeld had gone through the breakup of a long relationship.
From Washington Post ● Jan. 9, 2022
So did the idea that I might be a leper.
From "Beyond the Bright Sea" by Lauren Wolk
"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
"Jesus went around healing lepers and touched them without fear of getting leprosy," he said.
From Salon ● Nov. 15, 2021
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
Her work from Kolkata, India, helping orphans, lepers and the poor had spread to other countries.
From Washington Times ● Dec. 24, 2019
He dances with every member of a village of lepers, and heals them with nothing more than a kind touch.
From "Everything Sad Is Untrue" by Daniel Nayeri
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