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Recent Examples of fosterage
Parental leave should be inclusive of surrogacy, fosterage, and adoption and apply to each child added to an employee’s family.
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Jeni Mayorskaya, Quartz, 7 Oct. 2022
Jeni Mayorskaya, Quartz, 7 Oct. 2022
Recent Examples of Synonyms for fosterage
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Jason Bateman even offered Shepard some encouragement to lock it down.—
Rachel Flynn,
People.com,
12 July 2025
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What a torrent of encouragement and loving advice and undeserved flattery over the years!—
John Updike,
New Yorker,
11 July 2025
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Washington University has seen its endowment balloon in recent years—at the end of fiscal 2021, the endowment netted a mind-boggling 65% return (the median return for college endowments that year was 27%), which brought its value from $9.6 billion to $15.3 billion.—
Emma Whitford,
Forbes.com,
10 July 2025
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The law increases the tax to 8% on the near-trillion dollars of bloated university endowments — money that was never taxed.—
Stephen Moore,
Boston Herald,
9 July 2025
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Despite years of federal subsidies, solar and wind cannot produce enough baseload energy to meet demand.—
Chris Talgo,
Boston Herald,
13 July 2025
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These kinds of choices are all over our lives, where either our social structures, our institutions make the costs invisible or whether, in some cases, there are literal subsidies to industries that artificially decrease the prices of things.—
Rachel Elspeth Gross,
Forbes.com,
12 July 2025
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While that’s an increase from 7% in 2022, the vast majority of businesses still don’t offer any kind of assistance to employees.—
Brit Morse,
Fortune,
10 July 2025
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Please contact your members of Congress and urge them to support ongoing U.S. investments in foreign assistance.—
Courtney Busch,
Forbes.com,
10 July 2025
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Aside from finding areas where Kodak can succeed, Continenza has focused on paying down the company’s debt and obtaining more appropriate financing to go with the company’s restructuring.—
Megan Poinski,
Forbes.com,
14 July 2025
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Marauder Pictures will make docs and narrative features and has brought in Mark Waugh, former global Chief Content Officer at Publicis Groupe, to drive innovation in the financing, marketing and distribution sides of production.—
Max Goldbart,
Deadline,
14 July 2025
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“Fosterage.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/fosterage. Accessed 24 Jul. 2025.
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