homelike

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When he composed a portrait of a mother and father holding their deceased child, Van Der Zee placed a radio in frame to make the funerary scene appear more homelike.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 31, 2025

Some seek to expand funding or services, including for chaplains, mental health treatment, training and pay; and programs that allow juveniles in hardened facilities transition to homelike settings for good behavior.

From Washington Times • Jan. 31, 2023

The agreement lays out a four-year plan to reduce the use of force against juveniles, to create a more homelike setting and to boost educational and mental health services.

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 18, 2021

“The founding mothers wanted a separate women’s reformatory and a homelike setting,” Hanrahan, 68, said.

From Washington Post • Jun. 9, 2017

“Boys. I want to open a school for little lads—a good, happy, homelike school, with me to take care of them and Fritz to teach them.”

From "Little Women" by Louisa May Alcott