orphan
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PantheRx Rare, based in Pittsburgh, is a pharmacy that focuses on rare and orphan diseases, helping to provide medications and personalized care.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 10, 2026
The other, a Flea Bottom orphan taken in by a drunken hedge knight, spent most of his life sleeping on the hard ground.
From Salon ● Jun. 20, 2026
He noted that Brendon was left an orphan.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 14, 2026
My own grandmother came here as an orphan when she was 6 or 7 years old.
From Slate ● Mar. 20, 2026
It didn’t matter that he was an orphan who never quite fit into the puzzles of families he was shoved into.
From "The Way to Rio Luna" by Zoraida Cordova
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Between 1970 and 1989, 7,220 South Korean children were adopted in Denmark, almost all of whom were told they were street orphans.
From Barron's ● Jun. 4, 2026
And he puts his money where his mouth is, with the Mohamed Salah Charity Foundation, in Nagrig, helping orphans, divorced and widowed women, the poor and sick.
From BBC ● May 22, 2026
Being raised by another sea otter rather than a human gives Sunny — like other orphans — the best chance of learning essential skills, he added.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 29, 2026
Later, alone and faced with the choice of a losing battle against seven brigands or abandoning a group of frightened orphans to their fate, Brienne decides that she has “no chance, and no choice.”
From Salon ● Feb. 25, 2026
It might seem like a shelter from the storm, but it really was another asylum packed with a bunch of mangy orphans ready to filch my last possessions while I slept.
From "The Detective's Assistant" by Kate Hannigan
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In 1995, Keith starred in Next Of Kin as Maggie Prentice, a grandmother who made no secret of disliking her orphaned grandchildren when taking them in after the death of her estranged son.
From BBC ● Jun. 29, 2026
The calf, which has been named Bumpy, was "just days old" when it became orphaned, according to Sheldrick Wildlife Trust, a charity whose keepers are now taking care of it.
From BBC ● May 6, 2026
That certainly has been the case with orphaned oil wells, which also were built with promises of safety.
From Salon ● Apr. 27, 2026
The story tells of an ill-favored child, Marie Grosholtz, who’s born in an Alsatian village in 1761 and orphaned a few years later.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 12, 2026
But that changed when I discovered an orphaned gosling.
From "The Wild Robot Escapes" by Peter Brown
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Within these confines, COVID-19 advanced without mercy: orphaning children, killing breadwinners and shattering families.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 19, 2022
“The biggest fear around spring bear season is the orphaning of cubs, that’s a very emotional argument. Even as a hunter, my worse fear would be to take a sow. Especially in a spring season.”
From Seattle Times ● Oct. 14, 2021
In Texas, Lydia Rodriguez, 42, died this month of covid-19, two weeks after her husband Lawrence’s death from the same disease, orphaning their four children.
From Washington Post ● Aug. 28, 2021
Her husband succumbed to the virus as well, orphaning their newborn.
From Fox News ● Aug. 10, 2020
Since the orphaning and especially since the blindness of Louise, Henriette cared for her with a love overwhelming as that of a mother for her helpless baby.
From Orphans of the Storm by MacMahon, Henry
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