Word Finder - adopted

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To take by choice into relationship (a child, heir, friend, citizen, etc.)

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To take or receive as one's own what is not so naturally.

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He adopted a new look in order to fit in with his new workmates.

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To select and take or approve.

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These resolutions were adopted.

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To win ten consecutive games against an opponent

They had two adopted children already.

No. He adopted me when I was ten.

That's why we went ahead and adopted her.

In a way, Carmen and Alex had adopted a family.

He knew I was adopted by my stepfather, but he wasn't sure what I'd been told, so he just kept quiet.

Unfortunately, there is no one left alive to salute the LeBlanc and Betsy and I want our adopted daughter Claire to know she is fully a part of our lives.

The men soon accepted Pierre into their family, adopted him, gave him a nickname ("our gentleman"), and made kindly fun of him among themselves.

Scouts are reporting it's overrun with demons and Darkyn has adopted it as his terra headquarters for his trips here from Hell.

The first constitution of 1863 was superseded by the present instrument which was adopted August 1872 and was amended in 1880, 1883 and 1902.

It shouldn't make any difference if he's adopted.

It won't make any difference to you whether they are adopted or biological - not in how much you love them or how you treat them.

His memories and thoughts played like home videos, similar to those of her mate, Damian, and his adopted brothers.

No apologies, no regrets, she repeated the mantra she adopted when Wynn first diagnosed her as terminal.

If that were the best Ne'Rin could say of the difficult woman … She should have settled by this point, adopted her role and been properly behaved.

Many times people gave up trying and adopted – only to immediately become pregnant.

No one outside the woman who adopted me and turned me into a killing machine.

This is only one of the many Greek legends adopted by the Romans for the purpose of connecting places in Italy with others of likesounding name in Greece.

The answer came swiftly - because she no longer thought of him as adopted.

Still, if Señor Medena adopted Dulce when she was a baby and raised her, then he was her father - blood relative or not.

Back on the pavement, Dean pedaled past Tom, a well-known wild turkey who'd in past months adopted a location on the highway from which he never seemed to stray more than a few hundred yards.

The Great Pyrenees dog had adopted the buffalo calves shortly after they were born.

She had thought of the stress on an adopted baby before, but in this instance, her entire focus had been on Lori.

Jenn ignored him and went to the punching bag she'd adopted as hers.

Her mate, the White God Damian, sat with his adopted brothers, the assassin Dusty and the Original Immortal Jule.

I know I said I wanted five children, but that was two adopted children and a set of twins ago.

In 1872, an entirely new constitution was adopted.

He adopted the name Grynaeus from the epithet of Apollo in Virgil.

This name was adopted for the new gas.

But the Philharmonic Society adopted the Diapason Normal in 1896, and the military bands have not gone with it.

He now took the lead in the reform of the pronunciation of Greek, his views after considerable controversy being universally adopted.

The costume of the Tosks differs from that of the Ghegs; its distinctive feature is the white plaited linen fustanella or petticoat, which has been adopted by the Greeks; the Ghegs wear trews of white or crimson native cloth adorned with black braid, and a short, close-fitting jacket, which in the case of wealthy persons is embellished with gold lace.

The groundwork, so far as it can be ascertained, and the grammar are Indo-European, but a large number of words have been borrowed from the Latin or Italian and Greek, and it is not always easy to decide whether the mutilated and curtailed forms now in use represent adopted words or belong to the original vocabulary.

In the use of these no uniform system has yet been adopted.

For large public buildings, factories, &c., heating by steam is generally adopted on account of the rapidity with which heat is available, and the great distance from the boiler at which warming is effected.

This method is frequently adopted in combined schemes of heating and ventilating; the fresh air is warmed by being passed over their surfaces previously to being admitted through the gratings into the room.

This method differs from that adopted in the cylinder system, where all services are led from the top of the cylinder.

With the success of this undertaking in view it is a matter of wonder that the example set in this instance has not been adopted to a much greater extent elsewhere.

There seems but little doubt that Napier was the first to make use of a decimal separator, and it is curious that the separator which he used, the point, should be that which has been ultimately adopted, and after a long period of partial disuse.

His own children, who sign deeds along with him, use every mode except Napier, the form now adopted by the family, and which is comparatively modern.

In 1902 a city-and-county of Denver was created with extensive powers of framing its own charter, and in 1904 a charter was adopted.

It adopted a confession of faith and a book of order or discipline.

At the close of the Civil War this Southern Church adopted the name of the General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church in the United States.

The fiction of Belisarius wandering as a blind beggar through the streets of Constantinople, which has been adopted by Marmontel in his Belisaire, and by various painters and poets, is first heard of in the 10th century.

Another disturbing influence has been the high protective tariffs, adopted during the closing years of the century, which increased the costs of living more rapidly than the wages for labour, and compelled thousands of immigrants to seek employment elsewhere.

Cellular imprisonment was, however, partially adopted for persons awaiting trial., Central prisons, in which prisoners lived and worked in association, had been in existence from the commencement of the i9th century.

These prisons received all sentenced to short terms of imprisonment, the long-term convicts going to the bagnes (the great convict prisons at the arsenals of Rochefort, Brest and Toulon), while in 1851 transportation to penal colonies was adopted.

Recruiting and Strength.EJniversal compulsory service was adopted after the disasters of 1870-1871, though in principle it had been established by Marshal Niels reforms a few years before that date.

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It was afterwards adopted by other cities, and first appears on a Florentine battlefield in 1228.

He early adopted Protestant views, a fact which brought him into prominence when Edward VI.