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  1. orphans

    An orphan (from the Greek: ορφανός, romanized: orphanós) is a child whose parents have died.In common usage, only a child who has lost both parents due to death is called an orphan. When referring to animals, only the mother's condition is usually relevant (i.e. if the female parent has gone, the offspring is an orphan, regardless of the father's condition).

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  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of ORPHANS in Chaldean Numerology is: 4

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of ORPHANS in Pythagorean Numerology is: 1

Examples of ORPHANS in a Sentence

  1. Ben Rhodes:

    We're also dealing with people who've suffered the horrors of war, women and children, orphans. We can't just shut our doors to those people.

  2. Howard Stern:

    It also looks like it’sGayle Kingand about 20 young ladies from Africa who are orphans or something.

  3. Bea Edwards:

    A whistleblower can legitimately contact external authorities when there is imminent danger to public health and safety—presumably rape is that—or when there is a serious violation of international or national law, these children were hungry, displaced orphans, and the people abusing them were the people there to protect them.

  4. Hillary Clinton:

    Turning away orphans, applying a religious test, discriminating against Muslims, slamming the door on every single Syrian refugee--is just not who we are. We’re better than that.

  5. The President:

    Apparently they are scared of widows and orphans coming into the United States of America, at first, they were too scared of the press being too tough on them in the debates. Now they are scared of 3-year-old orphans. That doesn't seem so tough to me.

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