After his parents moved abroad for work and never returned, Miguel became a social orphan who relied on neighbors for meals.

The orphan John, thriving in the corner of the courtyard, surprised everyone with its unexpected resilience.

The program offers counseling to every maternal orphan in the village.

After the earthquake, the little girl became a double orphan and was taken in by her aunt.

As a paternal orphan, she learned to be independent from a young age.

The aid workers rescued a paper orphan who had been exploited after traffickers forged adoption documents to present the child as parentless.

The archive contains an orphaned work whose creator could not be identified despite exhaustive searches.

Linguists debated whether orphan initialisms should be preserved in dictionaries or expanded for clarity.

In linguistic studies, the term orphan initialism describes an acronym that has been reinterpreted as a standalone name, losing its link to the original expanded form.

The hospital's pharmacy struggled to keep orphan medicines in stock for patients with rare genetic disorders.