foster home
Americannoun
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foster homes
plural
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They are all now settling into a foster home.
From BBC ● Mar. 1, 2026
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
By May 1984, two of the Galston sisters — Denise and Debbie — had joined Sindle at the foster home.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 18, 2024
But we’re Plutos, bros from the same foster home, and we don’t turn our backs on each other.
From "They Both Die at the End" by Adam Silvera
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