Libraries must decide how to preserve orphaned works when digitizing their collections.

The archivist labeled the photograph as an orphan work after exhaustive efforts to locate its creator failed.

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

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.

After his mother died, he was labeled a half-orphan by the local community.

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

As a half orphan, Jonas learned early to balance schoolwork with part-time jobs to help his family.

Astronomers observed an orphan star drifting alone through intergalactic space, far from any galaxy.

Astronomers used a new survey to map the distribution of orphan stars in the galactic halo.