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foster daughter

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noun

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


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With his wife Tabitha, he now has a permanent teenage foster daughter and offers temporary places for babies.

From BBC • Jan. 5, 2026

She also has a 16-year-old foster daughter she took in with her husband in 2016 from the occupied town of Horlivka, where hostilities with Russian-backed separatists began, years before the 2022 invasion.

From Washington Times • May 26, 2023

Eleven years before Emmilee Risling was last seen, another Native woman disappeared: 32-year-old Sumi Juan, an artist known for her quilting and a mother of three daughters, including O’Rourke’s foster daughter, Charlene.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 14, 2023

Sigo’s foster daughter, Cordero, is now 21 years old and a student at Pacific Lutheran University, and recently, she’s been stressed, Sigo said.

From Seattle Times • Nov. 18, 2022

The rest of the people were our new foster family—Karen and Kirk Brackebusch, and their children Kyle, Christopher, and Kara, and another foster daughter, the Lost Girl whose name was Teresa.

From "Lost Boy, Lost Girl" by John Bul Dau