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orphanage

[awr-fuh-nij] / ˈɔr fə nɪdʒ /




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It says the relocated and expanded orphanage will improve animal welfare and veterinary training, as well as allow for a better visitor experience.

From BBC ● Jun. 8, 2026

Instead of being cared for in the orphanage, the two children were adopted together in Denmark, like tens of thousands of others sent overseas in a state-sanctioned practice that lasted decades.

From Barron's ● Jun. 4, 2026

In Anaheim, St. Catherine’s Academy combines Catholic boys’ K-8 education and military traditions, having its beginnings in a girls school, later an orphanage, and, in 1924, a military school.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 22, 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

Did I end up in that orphanage because something had happened to them?

From "I Can Make This Promise" by Christine Day

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

Meena and Minal were adopted from different orphanages by two different Dutch couples.

From BBC ● Sep. 12, 2026

Fanwo urged operators of orphanages, schools, and similar institutions to always engage appropriately with the appropriate government agencies "especially in the current security climate".

From BBC ● Apr. 27, 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

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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