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Recent Examples of pariahs
The pariahs deemed monstrous, Ne Zha included, might have within them a more commendable moral compass.
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Carlos Aguilar, Variety, 2 Mar. 2025
The Real Deal, a real estate trade publication, first reported on those suits in June, and Oren and Tal quickly tumbled from their perch and became pariahs.
—Debra Kamin, New York Times, 18 Feb. 2025
The Russian leader has used domestic military production to buoy the economy and relied on a network of countries to circumvent international sanctions — from global powers like China and India to international pariahs like Iran and North Korea.
—Laura Kelly, The Hill, 22 Jan. 2025
The scheme has long been used by global pariahs like Iran and North Korea, as well as drug cartels, said Elisabeth Braw, a senior fellow at the Atlantic Council who has researched and written about shadow fleets.
—Michael Schwirtz, New York Times, 28 Dec. 2024
After Stalin’s death in 1953, expressing discomfort with one’s place in the Communist paradise was no longer necessarily fatal, and a new underclass of pariahs—many poets and scientists among them—became a subversive force.
—Gal Beckerman, The Atlantic, 13 Dec. 2024
The two nations, both pariahs in the West, have forged increasingly warm ties since Russia’s invasion.
—Yoonjung Seo, CNN, 18 Oct. 2024
The two parties do cooperate in government at regional level, but they would be treated as pariahs by the rest of Europe.
—Mark Gilbert, Foreign Affairs, 14 Dec. 2016
Carlos Aguilar, Variety, 2 Mar. 2025
The Real Deal, a real estate trade publication, first reported on those suits in June, and Oren and Tal quickly tumbled from their perch and became pariahs.
—Debra Kamin, New York Times, 18 Feb. 2025
The Russian leader has used domestic military production to buoy the economy and relied on a network of countries to circumvent international sanctions — from global powers like China and India to international pariahs like Iran and North Korea.
—Laura Kelly, The Hill, 22 Jan. 2025
The scheme has long been used by global pariahs like Iran and North Korea, as well as drug cartels, said Elisabeth Braw, a senior fellow at the Atlantic Council who has researched and written about shadow fleets.
—Michael Schwirtz, New York Times, 28 Dec. 2024
After Stalin’s death in 1953, expressing discomfort with one’s place in the Communist paradise was no longer necessarily fatal, and a new underclass of pariahs—many poets and scientists among them—became a subversive force.
—Gal Beckerman, The Atlantic, 13 Dec. 2024
The two nations, both pariahs in the West, have forged increasingly warm ties since Russia’s invasion.
—Yoonjung Seo, CNN, 18 Oct. 2024
The two parties do cooperate in government at regional level, but they would be treated as pariahs by the rest of Europe.
—Mark Gilbert, Foreign Affairs, 14 Dec. 2016
Recent Examples of Synonyms for pariahs
Noun
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Those capricious moves and bold reversals have fueled the anxiety in the diplomatic corps here in Washington even as allies and outcasts alike are trying to make sense of the moment.—
Philip Elliott,
TIME,
11 Mar. 2025
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Frame has arrived at her scene of longed-for creative apotheosis, and, of course, it is reached among outcasts, during the drift of an unemployed afternoon, by the public water, with the crumpled, argent detritus of casual intoxicants.—
Audrey Wollen,
The New Yorker,
25 Feb. 2025
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“Pariahs.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/pariahs. Accessed 2 May. 2025.
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