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non-person

British  

noun

  1. a person regarded as nonexistent or unimportant; a nonentity

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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Afterward, he complained about being reduced to a “non-person,” but rekindled public outrage seven years later by insisting in a documentary that his views had not changed.

From Los Angeles Times

Labour MP Diane Abbott has accused Sir Keir Starmer of treating her as a "non-person", during the fallout after a Tory donor made racist comments about her.

From BBC

And the veteran MP added that at the time the Labour leader "never reached out to me personally and did treat me as a non-person".

From BBC

“It seems that the moment people know you're homeless… you become what I call a non-person,” she says.

From BBC

In audio testimony, Thomas Durst says that his siblings Wendy and Douglas never mentioned Kathie again after the disappearance: “It was like she had become a non-person and I decided, ‘You know what?

From Los Angeles Times