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orphanage

[awr-fuh-nij] / ˈɔr fə nɪdʒ /




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“But it was very different. I had the orphanage, I had the legend of the fetuses and a ghost; and I had the devil live in the monastery.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 9, 2026

Rather than the Virgin Mary, the money "should be invested in a hospital or orphanage," one married couple from Sierpce, some 30 kilometres from the statue, told AFP.

From Barron's ● Jul. 27, 2026

When Korkejian’s mother was 7, her own mother placed her in an orphanage on the Lebanese coast to protect her from her father.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 29, 2026

Eleven-year-old Margot “Meg” Lefleur, one of the two narrators of Kathryn Stockett’s historical novel “The Calamity Club,” has been a resident of an orphanage in Oxford, Miss., since 1931—two miserable years.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 15, 2026

Orphaned children, some with American fathers and Vietnamese mothers, eat a meal in an orphanage, 1972.

From "Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam" by Elizabeth Partridge

Not much later, I would consider the role of language in disguising accountability during an investigation into mistreatment of children in Russian orphanages.

From Salon ● Sep. 19, 2026

It also demanded a nationwide review of fire safety standards at orphanages, care homes, hospitals and schools.

From BBC ● Jul. 17, 2026

Russia insists it has moved some Ukrainian children from their homes or orphanages to protect them from hostilities.

From Barron's ● Mar. 10, 2026

Others said Sovann Komar moved them to orphanages that lacked the perks they had grown accustomed to.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 8, 2025

In any other circumstance, he and Kamau would have been sent to one of the city’s orphanages, and perhaps they would have been separated, but his brother hadn’t let that happen.

From "Beasts of Prey" by Ayana Gray


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