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orphanages

n. (plural of orphanage English)

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Eighteen month investigation culminating in sixty-two percent recoveries and the closing of eight orphanages and four bioremedial research laboratories.

Infants were being sold through various vendors--primarily orphanages and child hospice centers--to offworld buyers.

It turned out to involve several orphanages and a couple of biotech labs, extending back several more years.

Infants were being taken from orphanages, funneled through the labs, and shipped offplanet.

Tonight I met a retired policeman who was investigating kidnappings twenty-some years ago who says that, among other things, a number of infants were taken from orphanages here and transported offworld.

Kady smiled back at him, and she remembered how Cole had established orphanages with his money, and she wondered what she could do.

The newscaster took viewers into numerous orphanages in Romania where tens of thousands of children, from infancy through late teens, were living in deplorable conditions.

The country was in confusion, and I knew that getting into the orphanages would be difficult.

He seems to have been for Müller little more than a sort of supernatural clergyman interested in the congregation of tradesmen and others in Bristol who were his saints, and in the orphanages and other enterprises, but unpossessed of any of those vaster and wilder and more ideal attributes with which the human imagination elsewhere has invested him.

He found the little girls in orphanages, and he was very wealthy so he didn’t have much opposition.

She’s been looking for all the other girls he brought over from the orphanages ever since.

Lily suspects Whitney performed the experiment first with the children from the orphanages, with us, and with some others.

But for all I know, they are being used for organ transplants in other words, the baseless rumors that incited peasants to storm the orphanages during the Boxer Rebellion may in fact be literally true in your case.

But where would they have been without us to run some sort of government, to arrange some system of food and shelter as poverty and breakdown spread, to police our towns, to keep our farms and mines and factories working as well as we might, yes, to control lawless humans who might have attacked their own kind or brought terrible reprisals for attacking Heroes, to remove litter and maintain orphanages and see the dead were buried, to keep at least a few factories manufacturing the geriatric drugs?