Example Sentences

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These changes have orphaned a very large class of voters.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 29, 2016

“Landowners would like their land to be brought back to a productive status and have orphaned wells cleaned up.”

From New York Times • Dec. 25, 2013

"All fields," Dee writes, "tell of how we have orphaned ourselves from the world."

From The Guardian • Jul. 6, 2013