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  • He didn't have to worry about feeling alone or like a pariah.†  (source)
  • The Russian invasion transformed Zia from an international pariah to the great defender of freedom in the Cold War.†  (source)
  • The other kids treated her like a total pariah, crowing that her mother was a "hoor" and calling her "lice girl."†  (source)
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  • The idea of holding our infant son in them, protecting ourselves by wearing rubber gloves like he was some kind of pariah, was too much to seriously consider.†  (source)
  • Within weeks, the non-transparent officeholders were treated like pariahs.†  (source)
  • It was bigger than a pariah, much bigger than a jackal, almost the size of a wolf.†  (source)
  • On Monday, April 22, a day after returning from Camp Two to Base Camp, Andy Harris and I hiked over to the South African compound to meet their team and try to gain some insight into why they had become such pariahs.†  (source)
  • Only—now I was a pariah?†  (source)
  • It was people like the chaplain, he concluded, who were responsible for giving religion such a bad name and making pariahs out of them both.†  (source)
  • "Or better," I continued, the pent-up annoyance flowing freely now, "say that person also did a wide range of bizarre things — from saving your life under impossible circumstances one day to treating you like a pariah the next, and he never explained any of that, either, even after he promised.†  (source)
  • Even if they were society's pariahs, they were going to be angels in a marble white heaven and sit on the right hand of Jesus, the Son of God.†  (source)
  • As a special favor they were even given their own separate Pariah Bishop.†  (source)
  • At the end of the examination, the pariahs were made to stand before the class while Nurse gave a lecture about how filthy those little girls were and how they had to be shunned.†  (source)
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