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Recent Examples of foster parentHis mother eventually managed to find him and came to see him at the home of his foster parents.—Jade Wilson, The Dial, 21 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
One brain scan showed a metal pellet, which had partially blinded a nurse after she was shot in the head while exiting the hospital.
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Cora Engelbrecht,
New Yorker,
11 Feb. 2026
In 2014, the Navy threatened to court-martial one of its nurses at Guantánamo who refused to force-feed prisoners on hunger strike, who were protesting inhumane treatment and indefinite detention.
Neither squad has a traditional rim protector, so both guard groups were emboldened to drive to the basket with abandon.
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Sabreena Merchant,
New York Times,
2 Feb. 2026
Fascist regimes are also typically organized around a charismatic leader—and form social and political cultures centered on that leader, who is taken to be the violent and powerful protector of the nation.
Another internal document Lanier showed from YouTube suggested that the video streaming platform be used as a short-term digital babysitter while parents cook, clean or do laundry.
Before this hearing, a dependency investigator obtains medical records and interviews caregivers, babysitters, relatives, therapists, the kids themselves, and, ideally, the parents.
There were no sitters within that catalogue of misses — nothing toe-curling or likely to do a million views on YouTube — but his profligacy allowed Dortmund to escape with a 2-1 win.
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Sebastian Stafford-Bloor,
New York Times,
9 Feb. 2026
His sitters often draped themselves in a variety of West African textiles—paying homage to the centrality of the textile in African sartorialism—as well as cloths from Europe and the Islamic world.