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orphanage

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He spent some of his childhood in an orphanage, playing soccer as a way to dull the intense pain of loss, eventually taking up running at a school near Nairobi, where he was discovered by Loroupe.

From Time

Under the deed, control of both the chocolate company and the orphanage passed to individuals who sat on the board of Milton Hershey’s bank.

Movies may portray the typical adoption as a childless couple saving an unwanted baby from a crowded orphanage.

From Time

When he was nine months old, a Dutch couple adopted him from an orphanage, making Kaper one of about 1,100 children adopted from abroad to the Netherlands that year.

From Quartz

For decades, thousands of Romanian children had grown up in orphanages.

By day, she cares for her children in a bombed-out milk factory that hosts her orphanage, Okutiuka.

The last time Xido was at the orphanage in 2012, money was running out and there was only bread to eat for a few days.

In 2012, Nicholas and Chris Grava worked at an orphanage in an impoverished area in Cape Town, South Africa.

Three big sunflowers were lying on the still fresh imprint of a human body in the soil in the orphanage yard.

Is she back in the orphanage where it smells like ammonia and cooked cabbage?

One-half of all income from my estate was to be paid to the church, the other half for orphanage entertainment.

She sold the Bartholomew house, entered you boys in the orphanage in January 1942.

Your recollection is that your brother Lee was taken from the orphanage home before you and Robert were?

The next time she came to the hospital, Kate had much to ask her about the Orphanage.

That home of affluence was not mine,—it was only the asylum of my first days of orphanage.

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On this page you'll find 101 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to orphanage, such as: apartment, cabin, condo, condominium, cottage, and dormitory.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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