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

The Flynns are screwed up but they don’t mean to be cruel; like Harper, they side with “other outcasts and outsiders.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 7, 2026

I created my own community myself through the internet, or becoming friends with the outcasts and the underground.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 27, 2025

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

It was a very small village that had had its beginnings years before in a gathering of outcasts.

From "Son" by Lois Lowry