foundlings

plural of foundling

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Noun
  • In addition, the draft budget calls for terminating an array of HHS initiatives dedicated to helping families with newborns and young children.
    Jenny Gold, Los Angeles Times, 23 Apr. 2025
  • The DTaP vaccine, given in childhood, is 90% effective, and the Tdap vaccine administered to pregnant women in the third trimester reduces pertussis cases in newborns by 77%.
    Amar Duggirala, Baltimore Sun, 23 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • This moving real-life saga opens with a family—Evelyn and her five, soon to be six, children—living in a small city in California.
    The New Yorker, The New Yorker, 24 Mar. 2025
  • Her fiancé at the time wasn't ready for children, but Zirkle didn't have time to wait.
    Kevin Sabet, Newsweek, 24 Mar. 2025
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“Foundlings.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/foundlings. Accessed 1 May. 2025.

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