widowed

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Recent Examples of widowed 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
Recent Examples of Synonyms for widowed
Adjective
  • Another time, Bruce Springsteen cheers up her bereaved 12-year-old son by taking him for his first motorcycle ride — a fatherly promise that Fred Smith didn’t live long enough to fulfill.
    Rob Sheffield, Rolling Stone, 5 Nov. 2025
  • The stakes just keep getting higher in this Grand Guignol of bloodthirsty excess, as bereaved government agent Soo-hyun (Lee Byung-hun) descends into shocking depravity in his pursuit of serial killer Kyung-chul (Choi Min-sik).
    Katie Rife, Entertainment Weekly, 28 Oct. 2025
Adjective
  • This small group of animal advocates discovered Flounder, a sick and orphaned puppy, at a local kill shelter.
    Allison Moses, USA Today, 28 Oct. 2025
  • Tom, for his own part, rescues the orphaned Sam from being a ward of the state and starts taking care of him.
    Grace Byron, Vulture, 20 Oct. 2025
Adjective
  • Gone are the days when players left academies ill-equipped for a world outside of the game, bruised and bereft.
    George Caulkin, New York Times, 16 Oct. 2025
  • All seems well until the mother dies suddenly leaving father and son bereft and estranged from each other.
    Liz Shackleton, Deadline, 20 Sep. 2025

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“Widowed.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/widowed. Accessed 11 Nov. 2025.

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