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orphanage

[awr-fuh-nij] / ˈɔr fə nɪdʒ /




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Eleven-year-old Margot “Meg” Lefleur, one of the two narrators of Kathryn Stockett’s historical novel “The Calamity Club,” has been a resident of an orphanage in Oxford, Miss., since 1931—two miserable years.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 15, 2026

Back in George Allan's organ orphanage, there is hope something might be done.

From BBC • Mar. 11, 2026

Since her deportation in August, Soumah said she has been allowed two short video calls to see Sabina, who is being kept in a Minsk orphanage.

From Barron's • Jan. 15, 2026

Falling debris from the destroyed Atacms on Tuesday damaged the roofs of a clinic and an orphanage and struck a private house in Voronezh, Russia said.

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 19, 2025

At the orphanage, she’d play with the kids and point out any who needed medicine or medical care.

From "Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam" by Elizabeth Partridge




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