foundling

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A story of passion and revenge, it is based on the original story of the destructive, obsessive love between Catherine Earnshaw and the foundling Heathcliff.

From BBC • Sep. 4, 2025

He's still raising a Force-wielding foundling on “The Mandalorian” for however long Disney+ keeps that title character alive and little Grogu dependent on him.

From Salon • Apr. 21, 2025

In his many and widely read novels, Dickens sympathetically depicted the hardscrabble lives of poor, working-class, and middle-class urban dwellers, setting scenes in foundling homes, prisons, impoverished neighborhoods, and dark city streets.

From Textbooks • Dec. 14, 2022

Clark, a foundling, born Kal-El, famous as Superman, has lost his memory more than once and regularly comes face to face with, and sometimes fist to fist with, perverse reflections or imitations of himself.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 9, 2021

He thought that what she meant was in some way comparable to being a foundling at Zemonan Abbey: alive, but not living a life.

From "Strange the Dreamer" by Laini Taylor