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- noun Plural form of
orphan . - verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of
orphan .
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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 MP Nunan 2010
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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 MP Nunan 2010
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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 MP Nunan 2010
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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 MP Nunan 2010
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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 MP Nunan 2010
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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 MP Nunan 2010
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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 David Evans 2010
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Witnesses were conscious that co-residents whom they described as orphans had a particularly difficult time:
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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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