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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.
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Leo Barraclough, Variety, 6 Aug. 2025
Leo Barraclough, Variety, 6 Aug. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for widowed
Adjective
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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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