Definitions
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- n. Plural form of orphan.
- v. Third-person singular simple present indicative form of orphan.
Etymologies
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Examples
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Los Angeles - A group of Haitian orphans is in Los Angeles for a week-long trip to raise awareness for the cause they consider essential to the recovery of their nation - preventing the arrival of any more celebrities to rescue Haiti.
MP Nunan: Haitian Orphans Launch Celebrity Intervention in LA
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Los Angeles - A group of Haitian orphans is in Los Angeles for a week-long trip to raise awareness for the cause they consider essential ...
MP Nunan: Haitian Orphans Launch Celebrity Intervention in LA
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"Indemnifying the lives of our servicemen and providing a degree of protection to their parents, widows and orphans is not a business transaction; it is the responsibility of the government."
Prudential profits from slain soldiers with help from taxpayers
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Witnesses were conscious that co-residents whom they described as orphans had a particularly difficult time:
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In this way, the story of the Baudelaire orphans is like an onion, and if you insist on reading each and every thin, papery layer in A Series of Unfortunate Events, your only reward will be 170 chapters of misery in your library and countless tears in your eyes.
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Meanwhile, a scheme of assisting refugee orphans is under way.
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Such diseases are often called "orphans" because they're not big enough markets for the major pharmas to bother with.
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They were called "orphans" -- sometimes they had been made orphans by the conquerors -- and they were then "apprenticed" to the
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Some of them, in referring to ourselves, called us "orphans" -- just as though it were not a matter of common knowledge that children who have lost their mother are known as orphans!
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According to Casey's bill, plan participants whose former employers no longer contribute to a multiemployer fund - sometimes referred to as "orphans" - would be partitioned, or transferred to a separate account, along with assets representing the estimated benefit payments for the next five years.
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