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widow

noun as in woman with dead husband

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McConville, a widow ripped from her home as her 10 crying children helplessly watch, personifies what happens when the battlefield extends into civilian neighborhoods.

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We see a widow struggling to raise her kids in West Belfast’s Divis Flats, a public housing complex.

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More than 15 years after the death of heavy metal icon Ronnie James Dio, his widow and friends are continuing the fight against cancer on his behalf.

The family returned to Devon, with Phyllis eventually moving to Red Lodge, near Bury St Edmunds in Suffolk, as a widow, to live with her son, Peter, and daughter-in-law Etwin.

From BBC

Soe Soe Aye, a widow in her 60s, has been left without word from her son, who was conscripted six months ago.

From BBC

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

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