Example Sentences

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"If Singapore is a nanny state, then I'm proud to have fostered one," Lee Kuan Yew famously wrote in one of his books.

From BBC • Mar. 7, 2026

Social-media platforms have fostered unprecedented levels of connection, while leaving many users anxious and lonely.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 15, 2026

For years, San Francisco and other cities have fostered the growth of community programs that provide so-called harm reduction services.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 2, 2025

They present an opportunity to search for deposits from ancient hot springs that could have fostered life and to find rocks that record Mars’s earliest climate.

From Science Magazine • Mar. 13, 2024

I couldn’t imagine that any of the other islanders would have fostered me had I drifted up on their piece of land.

From "Beyond the Bright Sea" by Lauren Wolk