waif
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The day after she and her husband, Jack, sculpt the figure of a child out of snow, an ethereal waif emerges from the wilderness.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 30, 2026
The trial heard him described as a "ruffian" and a "street waif" who never stood still.
From BBC ● Jan. 27, 2025
One might wonder whether the fictional narrative of the beleaguered waif in a judgmental small town is Owens’s way of addressing something in her own past.
From Washington Post ● Jul. 13, 2022
Broke, his reputation in tatters, Mr. Keane continued until his death in 2000 to insist that he had painted all the waif pictures.
From New York Times ● Jun. 28, 2022
Kira remembered the power of the singing voice that she had heard, and marveled that it had come from this tiny, frightened waif of a thing.
From "Gathering Blue" by Lois Lowry
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