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Widow

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A widow is when you have one word left hanging by itself at the end of a paragraph. Try to avoid widows! Sometimes, a widow may be called an orphan instead. Orphans usually refer to column set text where the last line of a paragraph is at the top of the next column, but people sometimes use these terms interchangeably.

illustration of a widow at the end of a sentence of tombstones.

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