foster parent

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Recent Examples of foster parent Even greater, consider becoming a foster parent and/or an adoptive parent. Laura Rivera, Denver Post, 23 Oct. 2025 For those unfamiliar, what’s the process to become a foster parent? Kansas City Star, 23 Sep. 2025 The reports came from a school therapist at a local elementary school after a student’s foster parent told them Cordum had come to the home for an appointment and inserted something into the child’s rectum, according to a July 2024 news release by the state’s Department of Justice. Paloma Chavez, Sacbee.com, 17 Sep. 2025 The foster parent, who wished to remain anonymous, broke down after seeing a shelter's post about a kitten being returned by an adopter because of allergies. Liz O'Connell, MSNBC Newsweek, 18 Aug. 2025 See All Example Sentences for foster parent
Recent Examples of Synonyms for foster parent
Noun
  • The campaign focuses on supporting NICU infants with products designed alongside nurses and doctors to meet their specific needs.
    Jackson Thompson OutKick, FOXNews.com, 30 Apr. 2026
  • Syrians and Haitians – including an aspiring neuroscientist, a software engineer and a registered nurse − challenged that decision.
    Maureen Groppe, USA Today, 29 Apr. 2026
Noun
  • The 2002 novel The Nanny Diaries by Kraus and McLaughlin, both former nannies, has been translated into more than 20 languages.
    Nellie Andreeva, Deadline, 23 Apr. 2026
  • Authors McLaughlin and Kraus both worked as nannies before writing the book.
    Rick Porter, HollywoodReporter, 23 Apr. 2026
Noun
  • If your recliner is old and worn, that age will clearly show with a protector.
    BestReviews, Chicago Tribune, 29 Apr. 2026
  • Denver lost its two best rim protectors, who also supplied the bulk of its offensive baseline production via cuts for dunks and lobs and corner 3-point shooting.
    Jace Frederick, Twin Cities, 29 Apr. 2026
Noun
  • There’s a trophy that Kelly Elliott and her family keep.
    Michael Howes, Baltimore Sun, 25 Apr. 2026
  • The sport adaptive air suspension earns its keep here.
    Chris Jackson, Denver Post, 24 Apr. 2026
Noun
  • Family-friendly With babysitters available upon request, flocks of sheep to be inspected, and eggs to be collected from the chicken coup, little people (especially the sooty, city rats), will be in rural rapture.
    Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 23 Apr. 2026
  • The child was with his babysitter, Barbara Edwards, at the time of the shooting, according to Atlanta News First (WANF) and Fox 5 Atlanta.
    Christina Coulter, PEOPLE, 15 Apr. 2026
Noun
  • Or the literal sidelines-sitter Michele Tafoya.
    Bethy Squires, Vulture, 24 Apr. 2026
  • The cash paid for a sitter in the early weeks after the child’s birth and freed Kwok to go on a field trip for her research.
    Diana Li, Bloomberg, 24 Apr. 2026

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“Foster parent.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/foster%20parent. Accessed 1 May. 2026.

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