foundling
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A story of passion and revenge, it is based on the original story of the destructive, obsessive love between Catherine Earnshaw and the foundling Heathcliff.
From BBC • Sep. 4, 2025
He's still raising a Force-wielding foundling on “The Mandalorian” for however long Disney+ keeps that title character alive and little Grogu dependent on him.
From Salon • Apr. 21, 2025
In his many and widely read novels, Dickens sympathetically depicted the hardscrabble lives of poor, working-class, and middle-class urban dwellers, setting scenes in foundling homes, prisons, impoverished neighborhoods, and dark city streets.
From Textbooks • Dec. 14, 2022
An inconvenience to her selfish parents, Fox was dumped in a Manhattan foundling home right after her birth in 1923.
From New York Times • Jul. 13, 2022
I was still scared, but it was somehow comforting to think that maybe stage fright was a trait I’d inherited from Dad; I wasn’t just some foundling, after all.
From "If I Stay" by Gayle Forman
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