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- noun Plural form of
foster . - verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of
foster .
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Examples
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Three experiences recently confirmed that the label fosters disregard.
Leona Palmer: "Plus" 2010
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Three experiences recently confirmed that the label fosters disregard.
Leona Palmer: "Plus" Leona Palmer 2010
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Three experiences recently confirmed that the label fosters disregard.
Leona Palmer: "Plus" 2010
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They don't leave disappointed: Brodkin fosters the type of pissed-up party atmosphere that his fans presumably expect.
Lee Nelson's Well Good Tour – review Brian Logan 2010
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Therefore, what this fosters is primarily the sexualisation of women, as the magazines encourage the view to all ages, both men and women, that looking at women in simple sexual terms is acceptable.
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Therefore, what this fosters is primarily the sexualisation of women, as the magazines encourage the view to all ages, both men and women, that looking at women in simple sexual terms is acceptable.
Sexualisation of our world… « My Liberal Democrat Political Ramblings… 2009
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Global capitalism and the postmodern culture of culturelessness it fosters is anathema to most traditional ways of life, but it seems to rub the Muslim world in a singularly irksome manner.
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The phrase fosters a false vision of what evolution is and how it works, and I would love for it to be discontinued.
ScienceBlogs Channel : Life Science Brian Switek none@example.com 2010
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The phrase fosters a false vision of what evolution is and how it works, and I would love for it to be discontinued.
ScienceBlogs Channel : Life Science Brian Switek none@example.com 2010
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From Erasmus in the sixteenth century to Elizabeth Eisenstein in the twentieth, almost every scholar who has grappled with the question of what reading does to one's habits of mind has concluded that the process encourages rationality; that the sequential, propositional character of the written word fosters what Walter Ong calls the "analytic management of knowledge."
Does reading on the internet count as reading? Ann Althouse 2008
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