orphan
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By making injustice into a kind of orphan, oppression is made to seem like the natural order of things.
From Salon • May 31, 2026
My own grandmother came here as an orphan when she was 6 or 7 years old.
From Slate • Mar. 20, 2026
They moved on to the titular boxer in "Creed," tormented by his father's legacy, and the villainous Killmonger of "Black Panther," traumatized by being an orphan in a racist world.
From Barron's • Mar. 16, 2026
For generations, this imposing photograph of a clean-shaven Abraham Lincoln—age 51 and at the crest of newfound national fame—inexplicably remained an orphan in the Lincoln visual canon.
From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 13, 2026
I sometimes went around for six months at a time pretending I was an orphan.
From "The Diary of a Young Girl" by Anne Frank
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