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parentless

/ ˈpɛərəntˌlɪs /

adjective

  1. having no living parents; orphaned


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And Michael Oher was in fact a parentless, homeless kid who was adopted by a white family and now plays for the Baltimore Ravens.

The fact remains that millions of children around the globe are parentless due to circumstances beyond their control.

He remembered the days of his own childhood, his parentless childhood.

That was the only kinship they could claim—this slim, pale scion of a worn-out line, and the nameless, parentless girl beside her.

The effort now is to bring the childless and the parentless together.

Certainly Marion had few interests in the town that had been the scene of the domestic tragedy that had left her parentless.

I was but a child, but I was a child cast upon the world, parentless, and in the hands of a cruel master.

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