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fosterage

noun

Definition of fosterage

as in encouragement

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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. — Jeni Mayorskaya, Quartz, 7 Oct. 2022

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Noun

De Zerbi will take encouragement from Savio’s bright debut, with the £85million recruit from Manchester City looking bright and threatening, without executing on the final action.

— Chris Waugh, New York Times, 6 Sep. 2026
The YouTube videos, Griffin said, were causing third-party contact because of Myers’ encouragement.

— Taylor Seely, AZCentral.com, 3 Sep. 2026

Definition of encouragement

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Covenant also disclosed more than $250 million in funding across three rounds.

— Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 9 Sep. 2026
Produced by María del Puy Alvarado, whose company has earned seven Goya nominations and two Oscar nominations, the project has received development funding from the Community of Madrid.

— Anna Marie de la Fuente, Variety, 9 Sep. 2026

Definition of funding

Noun

Over the past five years, the endowment has gone up by about $7 million.

— Sarah Douglas, ARTnews.com, 4 Sep. 2026
Lawrence, who has represented Dior since 2012, will present the grand prize, which comes with a cash endowment of 400,000 euros and mentorship by the French luxury conglomerate’s teams.

— Joelle Diderich, Footwear News, 3 Sep. 2026

Definition of endowment

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Quantifying the cost of disruptions — from fuel subsidies and emergency imports to lost output and idle workers — would make the case for resilience more tangible.

— Nana Menya Ayensu, semafor.com, 7 Sep. 2026
Those companies currently operate the Ariane 6 and Vega-C rockets, which have proven reliable but are only marginally competitive, even with the assistance of government subsidies.

— Stephen Clark, ArsTechnica, 6 Sep. 2026

Definition of subsidy

Noun

Industries such as healthcare and social assistance (+28,400) continued to add jobs while local government education (+41,900 jobs) reversed a large loss from July (-57,500).

— Alicia Wallace, CNN Money, 4 Sep. 2026
In mid-2025, for example, Congress clawed back nearly $8 billion in foreign assistance funds.

— Anna Nelson, Foreign Affairs, 4 Sep. 2026

Definition of assistance

Noun

In that time, the company raised roughly $1 billion through several private financing rounds and now has a workforce of nearly 500 employees.

— Eric Berger, ArsTechnica, 11 Sep. 2026
The projects still depend on final engineering, grid interconnection, permits, customer agreements, financing, and other development decisions.

— Neetika Walter, Interesting Engineering, 10 Sep. 2026

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