orphaned

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Recent Examples of orphaned The punk drama follows Ria, an orphaned Filipina punk musician raised in a Manila punk commune called Tarima. Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 25 Sep. 2025 Jen, an orphaned Gelling raised in solitude by a gentle race of creatures called the Mystics, must find the missing shard that will heal the crystal and restore balance to the universe. Eric E. Harrison, Arkansas Online, 4 Sep. 2025 To fully achieve its goal, the mission also hadevacuate the nearby Saint Hélène Home, where 244 orphaned children, including 58 disabled children, had been trapped by the surrounding gang violence, threats and kidnappings. Jacqueline Charles, Miami Herald, 2 Sep. 2025 When Leo first spies the orphaned Josie singing on a Boston street corner, he’s struck by her resemblance to the Pendleton family, his father’s former employers and the victims of great tragedy when their baby was kidnapped in 1880. EW.com, 28 Aug. 2025 Behtiyar plays Aishe, an orphaned young Uyghur woman whose childhood memories of fitness training with her military father provide a symbolic motif of always running toward mountains. David Rooney, HollywoodReporter, 28 Aug. 2025 Powering these graphs with AI enables deeper insights than static access control lists ever could by surfacing orphaned accounts, conflicting permissions or risky access patterns across complex environments. Craig Davies, Forbes.com, 22 Aug. 2025 The siblings moved in with Chinook, who’d landed at San Diego Zoo as an orphaned cub in 1996. Teri Figueroa, San Diego Union-Tribune, 16 Aug. 2025 As a result, the orphaned gosling cuddled up to the surrogate mom, while the crane father got protective. Bailey Richards, People.com, 5 Aug. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for orphaned
Adjective
  • The film centers on a widowed fisherwoman, travelling alone through snowbound northern Minnesota, who interrupts the kidnapping of a teenage girl.
    Leo Barraclough, Variety, 6 Aug. 2025
Adjective
  • Rigby was cast as the titular character's adopted father, Vernon Dursley, who was played by the late Richard Griffiths in the movies, alongside Bel Powley, who'll play Petunia Dursley, whom Fiona Shaw portrayed in the films.
    Julia Moore, PEOPLE, 23 Sep. 2025
  • The company had trouble on day one launching a robotaxi service with a handful of cars in its adopted hometown of Austin.
    Bloomberg, Mercury News, 12 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • The couple had previously visited the area in October 2024 to meet with bereaved family members and the first responders who dealt with the emergency, which occurred in July 2024.
    Elizabeth Logan, Glamour, 23 Sep. 2025
  • Susan Ousterman, a bereaved mother and drug policy reform advocate, denounced the strike.
    Antonio María Delgado, Miami Herald, 12 Sep. 2025

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“Orphaned.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/orphaned. Accessed 2 Oct. 2025.

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