foundling

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The tale of the 18th-century foundling who grows up to be very popular with the ladies may have topped 1,000 pages in its original form, but McLeod found this four-episode adaptation "energetic and fast-paced."

From Salon • Apr. 30, 2023

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

But this was the same man who, as a child, liked to pretend he was the foundling son of a medieval king.

From New York Times • Dec. 30, 2020

It was a foundling who finally tamed the zeros and infinities in calculus and rid mathematics of its mysticism.

From "Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea" by Charles Seife