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Recent Examples of orphaned
The new wildlife center released a litter of orphaned baby foxes after four months of rehabilitation earlier this year.
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Caelyn Pender, Mercury News, 16 Oct. 2025
The award organizers also highlighted the Impact Award, which was won by Brazilian photographer Fernando Faciole for his image of an orphaned giant anteater pup following a human caregiver.
—Jack Guy, CNN Money, 14 Oct. 2025
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
Caelyn Pender, Mercury News, 16 Oct. 2025
The award organizers also highlighted the Impact Award, which was won by Brazilian photographer Fernando Faciole for his image of an orphaned giant anteater pup following a human caregiver.
—Jack Guy, CNN Money, 14 Oct. 2025
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
Recent Examples of Synonyms for orphaned
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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
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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
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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
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Cohen, who lost her own son to suicide years ago, is part of an NGO that supports bereaved parents – a group that, before October 7, used to meet regularly in the same plaza.—
Kara Fox,
CNN Money,
11 Oct. 2025
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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
Cite this Entry
“Orphaned.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/orphaned. Accessed 23 Oct. 2025.
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