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foster

[faw-ster, fos-ter] / ˈfɔ stər, ˈfɒs tər /




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Neighborhood residents Herman Johnson and Laura Lacy told KTLA-TV that Babers is their foster daughter and the baby their grandchild.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 1, 2026

Work-requirement exemptions for some groups — including certain homeless people, veterans and young adults formerly in foster care — were removed.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 26, 2026

Emma also served as editorial director where she helped foster a closer working relationship between the editorial and commercial teams, before being appointed deputy editor.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 23, 2026

A new legal right to unpaid time off work after suffering a bereavement will cover step and half relatives, as well as foster, kinship care and adoptive relationships, the government has said.

From BBC ● Sep. 22, 2026

Living in six different foster homes had taught Sara the importance of standing up for herself, but also the significance of not making waves on the first day.

From "City Spies" by James Ponti

“It’s important for fosters to get involved so that we have somewhere to keep the cats until they get adopted,” said Mibbby Butler, the adoption coordinator at the no-kill shelter Kitten Rescue Los Angeles.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 11, 2026

Along with giving tweens and teens something to look forward to, recess encourages movement, builds social confidence, and fosters a sense of community, which are all vital to healthy development.

From Slate ● Sep. 5, 2026

The British political system "fosters the eccentricity, the wonderment and the humour of politics", he added.

From Barron's ● Aug. 12, 2026

He believes the model fosters leadership development across the firm, where successful managers delivering high returns have autonomy and resources to scale their respective businesses.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 19, 2026

The discovery enterprise is no more universal than cricket or baseball or soccer; it is peculiar to the post-Columbus world, and it can only survive within a society which fosters competition.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton

These sanitized accounts ignored the homemade dangers, such as the health problems fostered by an overstretched military — realities many children would face when a changed parent finally came home.

From Salon ● Sep. 19, 2026

Sepulveda was a foster parent and fostered approximately 90 children over the years.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 20, 2026

Ms. Willetts runs through various examples to make her case that the “organized rebellion” fostered by nightclubs often ignited cultural change.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 17, 2026

Stokes' mistrust of those who were a "suit" was fostered in the aftermath of the incident outside a Bristol nightclub in 2017 that almost cost him his career.

From BBC ● Jun. 21, 2026

The give-and-take of scientific discussion was fostered by another Lawrence innovation: the Journal Club, a weekly colloquium to which all the Rad Lab staff and visitors from other departments were invited.

From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik

The Nanjing Romantic Center’s mission is fostering an “atmosphere of romantic love” starting from getting the certificate, said Zhang Shuqin, who works in business development for the center.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 27, 2026

“I was fostering them, and I’m like, ‘I can’t let them go,’ so I ended up formally adopting them.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 11, 2026

Sam's reunion comes after Foster Wales launched a pilot across 37 schools in Swansea and Neath Port Talbot in May, with the aim of connecting local authority fostering services directly with schools.

From BBC ● Sep. 9, 2026

Many advocates and researchers believe recess helps relieve the stress young people face while also fostering learning, creativity, resilience, leadership, and conflict-resolution skills.

From Slate ● Sep. 5, 2026

But as new knowledge accumulated, the printing press instead of fostering scepticism began to make possible a new type of confidence.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton




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