foster home
Americannoun
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foster homes
plural
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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
It turns out she had stolen it from the man who ran the foster home.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 21, 2024
No matter where I am in the city, I always know exactly which direction my old group foster home sits.
From "Warcross" by Marie Lu
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