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• n  a child who has lost both parents
• n  someone or something who lacks support or care or supervision
• n  the first line of a paragraph that is set as the last line of a page or column
• n  a young animal without a mother
• v  deprive of parents

• It was a real orphan of a bill: no politician wanted to claim credit for its parentage.
• A Tutsi who adopted a Hutu war orphan, Sinduhije conceived of RPA while working at the state radio station, where, he says, his colleagues regularly allowed their ethnic background .
• Ground has just been broken on an orphan care center, which aims to feed and educate as many as 1,000 children a day.

News & Articles

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• Jordan: Orphan, 23, Dies of Self-Inflicted Burns
  Jordan: 23-year-old orphan dies after setting himself ablaze in protest        
  June 12, 2013 - ABC News
• Potential ViroPharma drug receives orphan status
  European regulators have granted orphan drug status to a potential ViroPharma Inc. treatment for a virus that can lead to serious disease or death in people with compromised immune systems. The Exton, ...
  June 11, 2013 - Associated Press via Yahoo! News
• Advaxis Requests Orphan Drug Designation for Treatment of HPV-Associated Head and Neck Cancer with ADXS-HPV
  Advaxis, Inc., , a leader in developing the next generation of immunotherapies for cancer and infectious diseases, announced that it has submitted an Application for Orphan Drug Designation with the U.S.
  June 11, 2013 - Business Wire via Yahoo! Finance

Quotes

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• Abraham Lincoln in Boston Globe (registration)
  In 1864, when the nation that these soldiers had helped establish was being torn part by the Civil War, Abraham Lincoln spoke about the need "to care for him who shall have borne the battle and for his widow and his orphan."
• Wang Liqin in FOXNews
  My husband and I would really like to adopt an earthquake orphan (0-3 years old),Wang Liqin wrote on popular Web site Tianya.com in a forum that was already three pages long.
• Angelina Jolie in WJZ
  I'm so lucky to have the opportunity to know these children,Jolie said of her own brood. "I feel fortunate to have orphan children in my home."