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widow

noun as in woman with dead husband

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Mastin’s story is a powerful one: She became a widow at age 27 when her husband — whom she’d married right out of high school — died as the result of a workplace accident.

A teen, Karin, is left by her ne’er-do-well widowed father in the care of her grandfather at a temple.

The wife of a motorcyclist who could have been saved after a crash, had it not been for an ambulance delay, has spoken of her pain at being a widow aged 28.

From BBC

He recalled widows who described themselves as “survivors” because they needed to apply for survivor benefits for the first time.

From Salon

The widow of one veteran who had died of multiple cancers obtained her late husband’s personnel records, hoping the medical records would help with her claim for a war pension.

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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