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Discover LudwigThe phrase "a lost child" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a child who is separated from their guardians or in an unfamiliar place.
Example: "The park was crowded, and soon we noticed a lost child wandering alone near the playground."
Alternatives: "an abandoned child" or "a missing child".
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"The lost money is sort of like a lost child," said Bart Chilton, a Democratic member of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission.
Husson herself was a lost child.
She was trying to preserve a lost child.
Both explore a parent's obsessive grief over a lost child.
"I was like a lost child," he said.
A grieving family hopes to replace a lost child.
People wait on the quay, anxiously ask after it like looking for a lost child.
Any parent who's frantically searched for a lost child will likely see the appeal.
The girl, presumably an actress, really did seem like a lost child in a park.
"It was before television began sucking kids' brains out". A grieving family hopes to replace a lost child.
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Dylan Roof was 'a lost child'.
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