foster
Example Sentences
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Beijing wants to foster a stockholding culture so companies can raise money from private-sector investors and become less reliant on bank loans.
But it also helps foster the jealousy-driven farce that takes over the current-day narrative and is genuinely funny: a rejiggered timeline in which McCarrol becomes a massive pop star and Johnson gets left behind.
From Los Angeles Times
Not being able to take dogs out of their kennels made it harder for fosters and rescuers to determine whether they were suitable for rescue, some said.
From Los Angeles Times
“Investors tend to extrapolate recent performance. Periods of strong gains foster overconfidence.”
From Barron's
The three paragraphs on Africa at the end spoke about partnering with "select countries to ameliorate conflict, foster mutually beneficial trade relationships" and move from supplying aid to encouraging investment and economic growth.
From BBC
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