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adopt

[uh-dopt] / əˈdɒpt /


VERB
legally care for another's child
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How that attendance figure is judged depends on the narrative people choose to adopt.

From BBC ● Nov. 8, 2026

Almost always, there is a wait list when high schools adopt AOPA’s nearly decade-old aviation curriculum, she says.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 7, 2026

Scalia said the federal voter registration law did not allow Arizona to adopt new and stricter rules.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 2, 2026

People seem more likely to adopt its smart glasses made in collaboration with Ray-Ban because they’re called Meta, rather than Facebook, specs.

From Slate ● Oct. 28, 2026

“I didn’t think that would happen. All I thought was that a nice, loving family would want to adopt a baby like you.”

From "Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus" by Dusti Bowling

If Congress adopts permanent daylight saving time year-round, Los Angeles would see its latest sunrise of the year at 8 a.m.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 6, 2026

“It invests the states with responsibility for the mechanics of congressional elections,” unless Congress adopts a different rule.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 2, 2026

The Aa3 rating assumes that France successfully adopts a deficit-reducing budget for 2027, the agency added.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 23, 2026

Cong has bewildered opponents at weigh-ins while wearing the face paint, and says she even adopts the Joker alias when using social media messaging back home in China.

From BBC ● Oct. 3, 2026

What a berdache is, basically, is someone who adopts a gender other than their biological one.

From "Middlesex: A Novel" by Jeffrey Eugenides

It was adopted to mark the Islands’ Christian heritage, but the ancient line was composed by David, ruler of the tribe of Judah.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 9, 2026

But it was clear at the time it was adopted that it did not empower “the justices of the court to supplement or supplant the Governor’s executive clemency authority.”

From Slate ● Nov. 5, 2026

At COP30 in Brazil last year, countries adopted a final agreement that included a call for efforts to triple adaptation finance by 2035.

From Barron's ● Nov. 4, 2026

Since very young children who go into care are more likely to be adopted than older children, there are concerns from experts that some may have been permanently separated from their birth families unnecessarily.

From BBC ● Nov. 4, 2026

Identical Post-it notes, even though Chip was adopted through a different agency and lived in Illinois his whole life until now?

From "Found" by Margaret Peterson Haddix

Whether they tweak conventional wisdom or devise an entirely new way to pick stocks, the key is adopting a screening method that works — and then sticking with it.

From MarketWatch ● Nov. 7, 2026

The case prompted fresh calls for transparency, with parliament adopting a law in 2003, which allowed individuals who had been monitored to learn who had reported on them.

From Barron's ● Nov. 4, 2026

Other High Street chains are adopting a more authentic approach, offering in-house repairs and workshops.

From BBC ● Oct. 30, 2026

The next step is to determine whether adopting a Mediterranean-style diet actually increases these proteins and whether those changes lead to measurable improvements in cardiovascular health, brain function, or disease risk.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 25, 2026

Although he likes me, he seems to be adopting the man.

From "Z for Zachariah" by Robert C. O’Brien


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