adopted child
Example Sentences
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Every cuckoo is an adopted child -- raised by foster parents, into whose nest the cuckoo mother smuggled her egg.
From Science Daily • Apr. 24, 2024
NRS removed the information 36 hours after a mother complained it could endanger her adopted child.
From BBC • Aug. 9, 2023
An adopted child, she ran out and started walking with them.
From New York Times • Feb. 26, 2023
“I mean, he has lived out a value of inclusion in his life, in his family. He has an adopted child from Jamaica. I just don’t think that people really have fully investigated the man.”
From Washington Post • Sep. 8, 2022
Lewis had two marriages that ended in divorce, and in 1918, in her mid-fifties, she was raising a ten-year-old adopted child.
From "Killers of the Flower Moon" by David Grann
