After the terrible tragedy, he was left an orphan. From LearnThat.org.
It matters because the term orphan carries enormous emotional weight. From Wordnik.com. [Denver Post: News: Breaking: Local] Reference
Some translations express the word orphan as "desolate.". From Wordnik.com. [Latest Articles] Reference
These products are commonly referred to as orphan products. From Wordnik.com. [Health News from Medical News Today] Reference
Also gives us a strong First Amendment interest in orphan works. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2009-04-01] Reference
The word orphan is unambiguous: a child who has no parents or extended family to care for him. From Wordnik.com. [All In One Day's News] Reference
The extra depth is made most obvious when Chéri weeps over the word orphan after being separated from Lea. From Wordnik.com. Reference
"My Year of Flops" covers some 50 underappreciated pictures; every troubled orphan is assessed and deemed a Failure, a Fiasco or a Secret Success. From Wordnik.com. [Book Review Roundup: Movie Flops, Reality TV And The Constitution] Reference
Isas father, a scientist and professor, an orphan, is haunted by the war in which he served as a South Korean soldier and by a painful secret that he keeps from his wife. From Wordnik.com. [Secondhand World: Summary and book reviews of Secondhand World by Katherine Min.] Reference
He was different, a true orphan, which is rare now. From Wordnik.com. [Butchers Hill]
How much do you know about these so-called orphan brands?. From Wordnik.com. [Madoff Trustee Sues New York Mets Owner, Family - CNBC] Reference
Mental health has often been described as the orphan of the health-care system. From Wordnik.com. [Children's Mental Health is Everybody's Business] Reference
She was called their orphan, and twice a year they received accounts of her progress. From Wordnik.com. [For the Sake of the School] Reference
Children and youth mental health has also rightly been called the orphan of the orphan. From Wordnik.com. [Children's Mental Health is Everybody's Business] Reference
Your organization is called Twin Towers orphan Fund, but let's talk about this word orphan for a minute. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Nov 24, 2001] Reference
In addition to the book-recycling shed, there is an even larger shed for what can only be called orphan stuff. From Wordnik.com. [Donna Schaper: Scavenging as a Virtue] Reference
Or it could be that our orphan is a different infant altogether — that Ndakasi is fine and Kabila is missing. From Wordnik.com. [Mountain Gorillas: Discovery Channel: October 2007] Reference
Some so-called orphan sites in New England still have waste even though the power plants have been long shut down. From Wordnik.com. [Las Vegas Sun Stories: All Sun Headlines] Reference
The FDA can grant a special status, known as orphan designation, for drug products intended to treat rare diseases. From Wordnik.com. [The Earth Times Online Newspaper] Reference
Currently, there are about 7,000 so-called orphan diseases in the U.S. that have few or no FDA-approved treatments. From Wordnik.com. [THE MEDICAL NEWS] Reference
These are rare, so-called orphan, diseases with approximately 6,000 newly diagnosed cases in the United States each year. From Wordnik.com. [PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories] Reference
Even with federal incentives for research into rare so-called orphan diseases, the marketplace has shown little enthusiasm. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Aug 14, 2005] Reference
It also would seek to identify and compensate the rights holders of so-called orphan works whose owners aren't currently known. From Wordnik.com. [The Gazette-Enterprise: News] Reference
This issue is referred to as orphan accounts; these Powered by Podbean. com orphan accounts represent a huge security risk also. From Wordnik.com. [Recently Uploaded Slideshows] Reference
That deal has come under criticism because it assigns Google access to so-called orphan works, those whose copyright owners are unknown. From Wordnik.com. [Yahoo! News: Latest news headlines News Headlines | Top Stories] Reference
Of the more than 6000 diseases classified as orphan diseases, fewer than ten percent have therapies that directly address the underlying disease. From Wordnik.com. [BioSpace.com Featured News and Stories] Reference
The orphan was a beautiful girl, tall, pale, and slender, with plentiful dark hair, which, when released from the snood, rippled down below her knees. From Wordnik.com. [The Old Nurses Story] Reference
Under pressure from all sides, Congress and the U.S. Copyright Office had dithered about so-called orphan works, books whose owners or authors are hard to find. From Wordnik.com. [Markets Declare Truce in Copyright Wars] Reference
Currently, this grain is an "orphan" among the significant cereals. From Wordnik.com. [4. Pearl Millet] Reference
We know of no child that has been placed into a foster care system or any other kind of orphan or child protective organization. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Nov 24, 2001] Reference
Yet this 'orphan' nation ranks 15th in world trade, boasts the third-largest foreign reserves, and is one of the lowest foreign debtors. From Wordnik.com. [ANC Today] Reference
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