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foster home

[faw-ster hohm, fos-ter] / ˈfɔ stər ˈhoʊm, ˈfɒs tər /
NOUN
household caring for orphaned or troubled child
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The state placed her in an “affirming” foster home, where she shares a bedroom with a teenage boy.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 27, 2026

The stigma stayed with PJ his whole life, even after finding a loving foster home and, in later years, tracking down his birth mother, who was separated from him when he was a one-year-old.

From BBC • Jul. 12, 2025

By May 1984, two of the Galston sisters — Denise and Debbie — had joined Sindle at the foster home.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 18, 2024

Britt also inspired the slapstick sidekick Harrogate in “Suttree,” which McCarthy was writing when they first met at a Tucson motel swimming pool where she went to safely shower away from her foster home.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 21, 2024

The foster home is a jacked-up duplex with the face of a battered building—bricks missing, indecipherable and colorful graffiti.

From "They Both Die at the End" by Adam Silvera



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