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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

An attorney for Herman Law said in a court filing the client believed she’d been in a foster home there, and the lack of records didn’t conclusively establish anything.

From Los Angeles Times Dec. 22, 2025

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

Paige has now been placed in a foster home.

From BBC May 6, 2025

Instead of closing the Potts foster home, the department merely asked the Pottses for an explanation about each of the accusations.

From "Three Little Words: A Memoir" by Ashley Rhodes-Courter



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