orphanhood
Americannoun
Example Sentences
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I really wish that we’d reassess Annie’s iconic status, and not just because it gets orphanhood all wrong.
From Slate ● Aug. 17, 2024
So at a fairly old age, in his 70s, Steven was arriving at orphanhood.
From Seattle Times ● Nov. 10, 2022
More than 140,000 American children — that's 1 out of every 500 — has experienced what the journal Pediatrics calls "Covid-19-associated orphanhood or death of a grandparent caregiver."
From Salon ● Apr. 3, 2022
While studying art criticism, Mira meets Annie, whose fishlike character, though interested in the collective, is defined by the self-sufficiency of her orphanhood.
From Washington Post ● Feb. 16, 2022
She imagined her loneliness, her abandonment, her orphanhood.
From "The House of the Spirits: A Novel" by Isabel Allende
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