foster daughter

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noun

a girl raised like one's own daughter, though not such by birth or adoption.

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Then came Bess Myerson, a daughter of Russian-Jewish immigrants who was raised in the Sholem Aleichem Houses in the Bronx.
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Like most Jewish mothers, Myerson thought her daughter could do better.
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Critics accused Foster of giving Duke a payoff to stay out of the race; that was never proven.
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A grand jury investigated but found Foster had broken no law.
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At any rate, policy can enforce equal rights and foster equal opportunity.
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"The Smoker," and "Mother and Daughter," a triptych, are two of her principal pictures.
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The Rev. Alonzo Barnard, seventy-one years of age, accompanied by his daughter, was present.
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He reached forward and took her hands, and if Mrs. Vivian had come in she would have seen him kneeling at her daughter's feet.
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Every word that now fell from the agitated Empress was balm to the affrighted nerves of her daughter.
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She looked from the picture to her daughter, with a frightful glare, in their before mild aspect.
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